Tag: poetry
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#monoku Monday #2: Creak…a dVerse Poets Pub #Quadrille #Monday #haibun special
Creak stairs under footsteps floorboards of the worn front deck the opening front door our screams at the pale face dripping blood from red-stained fangs coming through the door The accented “good evening” before he fills my pumpkin case creak feet scampering into the night For dVerse…
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#Monoku Monday 10/23/17 #haiku #poetry
meditation the crunching of wood before dawn
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#Senryu Saturday 10/21/17…when it rains…
Autumn rain a colleague shouts “really?!” at the fire alarm from my twitter feed: #haikuchallenge (really) #haiku #micropoety #senryu #poetry 12:22 PM – 9 Oct 2017
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A #Haiku for Carpe Diem #1284…
dry earth falls through these wrinkled fists Autumn for Chèvrefeuille’s Carpe Diem #1284
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#Haikai Challenge 4 (10/21/17): darkness #haiku #haibun #senryu #tanka
Congratulations to Qbit (twice!), RevivedWriter (also twice!), and Jilly for participating in last week’s challenge. On to this week’s! It’s late October. The days shorten. So what better kigo (seasonal reference) could there be than darkness? Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to write a haikai poem that uses, or alludes to,…
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#Performance alert 10/21/17: Rockland Poets Open Mic Today! #poetry #OpenMic #SpokenWord
I plan to perform some of my Haibun tonight! If you’re in the area, come and experience a great night of poetry by many talented poets! https://www.facebook.com/events/314075485662666/?ti=icl
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#Free-style Friday 10/20/17…when goes wrong and right…#senryu #haiku #poetry
rain patter the haibun I didn’t type the haiku I wrote promises we never keep summer wind first published in Failed Haiku 21, September 2017
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#Throw-down Thursday #2: My latest (honestly!) #haibun on .@ImageCurve #poetry #haiku
An Unpleasant Reminder I find it just before I leave on some errands. A crumpled memo, with Sean’s R’s mother’s phone number on it, requests a phone conference. It’s at least two weeks old, if not older. Another reminder that I haven’t made a single outreach to any parents. The most current log is due…
Frank J. Tassone 