Tag: Poets United
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Tending wildfires: A #haibun
“What if …?” And the catasrophizing begins. The breaks fail. The school finds out I’m a fraud. The well of inspiration dries. The missles launch as the last potable water evaporates. Or the inevitable destiny to live ’til I die in a box on skid row arrives. O, how the anxious mind creates…
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A Cowardly Lion’s Soliloquy
The world is a beautiful place…when you have courage. When you don’t…not so much. I would know. I balled like a baby when Dorothy smacked me right in the kisser. Imagine! A King of the Jungle sopping the ground with his own sobs. Those were days when I saw no beauty anywhere. I…
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Softest Whisper: A #TankaTuesday (on a Wednesday) #tankaprose
The Spirit moves. Sometimes in the fiercest cyclones. Far more often in the softest whispers. The story of Elijah experiencing the Presence of the Lord in the “small, still voice” comes to mind. The Spirit manifests in the gentle nudge that prompts us to the action–or inaction–best suited for the situation we face.…
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Natural Epiphanies: A #TankaProse
bizarre convictions born of the wilderness Yet I place my trust in the ultimate meaning of an empty cross I have seen the rippling leaves in a sudden wind. Heard the rush of a rain-swelled brook. Smelled the fresh smoke of a new fire. Touched the bark of a five-hundred-year-old oak. Tasted the…
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Sea Shore Encounters: a #writephoto #haibun
The waves slap the shore again and again. White foam crests burst into sprays of saline moisture. The sporadic cry of passing terns adds a staccato harmony to the rumbling surf’s deep bass. I sat here more than sixteen years ago–at night. The last light of the moon passed behind the gathering rainclouds…
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Of Medicinal Malice and Momentary Humanity: A #TankaTuesday (on a Wednesday) #TankaProse
Children wait at the Paso Del Norte Port of Entry, in the US-Mexico border in Chihuahua State, Mexico on June 20, 2018. Herika Martinez/AFP/Getty Images Somewhere in south Texas, a child cries. Uniformed men pulled him from his screaming mother’s arms, and brought him far away. He sits by a cot, surrounded by other…
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“Essential” Featured in Poets United: Poems of the Week!
Thrilled to have my haibun Essential featured in Poems of the Week from Poets United! Thank you, Sherry, for the invitation and conversation! A special shout-out to Robin Kimber and Julian Clarke, whose poems are also featured! ESSENTIAL “In the beginning was the word…” Logos. The essence of consciousness, the embodied will of…
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Humble Truths: a #TankaTuesday (on a Wednesday) #TankaProse
fluttering leaves in a cool afternoon breeze a neighbor’s drumming such a happy fantasia of how things could have been The truth is a six-mile-plus hike along the Doodletown Bridal Path in Bear Mountain State Park on Memorial Day–the same day as my late father’s birthday. The truth is the slow opening…
Frank J. Tassone 