Tag: poetry
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A #Haibun for Imaginary Gardens with Real Toads–Get Listed: November Edition…#poetry #haiku
Disordered Intent All those desires you deny in the daylight. The gleam of light off the handcuffs hanging from the headboard, the mutual screams in an empty house, the gnarled sheets. But how will you escape them during these lengthening nights? The lure of flesh will have its due. All your resolutions avail you not.…
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A #tanka for A Month with Yeats: Day Four…#poetry
shattered moonlight our clanking steel stained red in celestial blood Danann departing at dawn so much mist in the morning for Jane Dougherty’s A Month with Yeats: Day Four
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#Free-style Friday 11/3/17…a #tanka for A Month with Yeats: Day 3
Another Tanka for Jane Dougherty’s renamed A Month with Yeats: Day 3 Tuatha de Danann their storm-swept ancient faces face our iron the distant black smoke of our burning ships
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A #Tanka for November Yeats Challenge-Day 2
desolate lands cold fire in his eyes embracing the dark how high the price we paid forging his dream with our blood for Jane Dougherty’s November Yeats Challenge–Day 2
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An Oil Change: a flashback #haibun for #dVerse OLN
An Oil Change A Latino couple rests on the dark-gray leather couch opposite me. His thoroughly stained white painter’s pants and Sherman white sweatshirt somehow contrast and complement her matching light-gray sweat suit. An Orthodox couple with a toddler sits on burgundy cushion chairs nearby. A rhythmic pounding blends with Asian TV and a muffled…
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#Throwdown Thursday 11/2/17…my latest #Haibun #Poetry: Morning Whine on .@ImageCurve
The coffee maker still gurgles after nearly an after hour. A steady electric hum drowns out the chorus of birdsongs, save one… Check out the rest on Image Curve!
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#Way-back Wednesday 11/1/17…final spookiness…#haibun #haiku
Encountering the Apparition The fair at Patriot’s Park in North Tarrytown bustles with people. Kids scream on the Flying Saucers and the Tilt-o-Whirl. Not so much on the carousel. Then there is the haunted house. I walk up its dark entryway. Turn left. See a flashing strobe-light. And a familiar figure: Jesus Christ. He sits…
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Special Wednesday #Tanka (Tuesday) Edition
cold North Wind no surprises left as we prepare our last march who knew immortality would cost this much? For Kiwinana’s Tuesday Weekly Tanka Challenge 69- Surprise and Prepare and Jane Dougherty Writes’ November Yeats Challenge- Day 1
