Tag: poetry
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A #Tanka for A Month with Yeats: Day 16 #haiku #poetry
From ‘He Mourns for the Change That Has Come Upon Him and Longs for the End of the World’ ‘Do you not hear me calling, white deer with no horns?’—W.B. Yeats white-tail doe her bent neck over crabgrass at sunset Where have all your fawns gone? Why do you graze alone? for Jane…
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#ThrowdownThursday 11/16/17…my latest is up: Morning Prayer – #Haibun | .@ImageCurve #poetry #haiku
Morning Prayer BY FRANK J. TASSONE · 16TH NOVEMBER 2017 Haibun Robins, sparrows, and cardinal songs through an open window. Bacon sizzling from the kitchen. The flickering tongue of an indifferent Senhora da Fatima Candle in a drape-rustling breeze. Seated on the zafu, legs folded on the zabuton. A tenuous hold of intention through a…
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A #tankaProse for A Month with Yeats: Day 15 #haibun #tanka #poetry #dversepoets
By John M, CC BY-SA 2.0, Link You, too, have come where the dim tides are hurled Upon the wharves of sorrow, and heard ring The bell that calls us on; the sweet far thing.’ —W.B. Yeats A Blood Rose Victory The stars fall as the last light of day fades. Tails of fire light…
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#Tanka Tuesday #2…the Wild Beauty of Street Art…#haiku #poetry
beautiful balloons lovers odor all over the comfy front seat What wild flight of fancy do we overlook each day? for DVerse Poets Pub–Poetics. Hosted tonight by Lillian. For Colleen’s Weekly Tuesday #Poetry Challenge For Kiwinana’s Weekly Tanka Prompt Challenge–week 71
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#Tanka Tuesday #1 (11/14/17)…for A Month with Yeats: Day 14…#haiku #poetry
Jane’s prompt for a Month with Yeats: Day 14: Today’s quote if from ‘To Ireland in the Coming Times’. I think the following lines have inspired a sonnet. I find this a hard form to write, but this one came without trying. That you, in the dim coming times, May know how my heart went…
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#Monoku Monday 11/13/17…A Visit to the Owl…#haibun #haiku #poetry #dVerse
A Visit to the Owl What must have gone through poor Mrs. Brisbee’s mind? A mouse, venturing into the lair of an owl so close to dark. Nothing short of a desperate mother’s love for her sick son could so drive her to face such horror alone. And what did she gain? A…
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A #Tanka for a Month with Yeats: Day 13
Aasgaardreien peter nicolai arbo mindre Wiki media commons For Jane Dougherty’s A Month with Yeats: Day 13: Today’s quote is from ‘The Hosting of the Sidhe’ by W.B. Yeats. ‘Away, come away: Empty your heart of its mortal dream.’ nighttime thunder I answer the Wild Hunt’s call and embrace the wind Why did I ever…
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A #Tanka for A Month with Yeats: Day 12…#poetry #haiku
Jane Dougherty’s A Month with Yeats: Day 12– Today’s quote from the poetry of W.B. Yeats is taken from ‘The Rose of the World’. ‘He made the world to be a grassy road Before her wandering feet.’ meadow path a panicked flight of birds from the chainsaws’ roar for all green spaces must…
