Tag: Poets United
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Steller Joy: A #TankaTuesday (on a Wednesday) #tankaprose (5/16/18)
“Mary, full of grace,” so did the angel proclaim But what victory did you contemplate gazing upon the milky way? Is there a moment more sublime? Lao Tzu counseled those troubled at heart, whom thought the universe agitated, to look out at the stars. I followed his advice many nights. Too often, I strained…
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Aqua: A Natural History
By Arturo Mann (User:Feralaas) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons I was born from the remnants of stars. The hydrogen that fuels their fires twice forms me, along with the oxygen through which all energy finds release. So abundantly have I grown from that first molecule that I cover two-thirds of the earth. And I…
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Recrossing the Water: a conversation with Sylvia Plath
“It is better to light a candle then curse the darkness.” —Chinese proverb I understand, Sylvia. If we’re honest with ourselves, we’ll recognize the blackness within. How it envelops us like a night sky at Mohican Center, far from firelight, where the crunch of gravel under our steps is our only evidence of…
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A Vernaltide Warning of my Vices and Virtues: A #TankaTuesday (on a Wednesday) #TankaProse
Photo by Henry Be on Unsplash “On a hot, summer night: would you offer your throat to the wolf with the red roses?” –Meatloaf Warning: Do not awaken my favorite vice. For lust will pulsate through my trembling arteries with every quickened beat of a suddenly hungry heart. Do not let me imagine all of…
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A Vision of the Future: a #tanka -bun
sunset a handful of years left in my career journeys across American roads, rivers of Europe far from the long-ago rooms filled with late-night screams and tears twilight holding hands we greet the stars Photo by Peter Oswald on Unsplash for Poets United–Midweek Motif–vision Real Toads’ Micro Poetry–Long-Ago Rooms #GloPoWriMo2018…
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A Mortal Scream Epistle: a #shadormaprose #letterpoem
Edvard Munch [Public domain or Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons You would not understand were you still on my side of the veil. I only hope that on your side, you do, and will forgive me for bearing witness. Just as I hope to someday forgive you. Three AM you dare scream my…
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Arise Again: a #tankaprose
Moonlit sea power of a changing tide shaping the surf insight born of suffering perseveres the longest I awaken to the song of surf on turf. The remains of my latest wreck surround me. I can remain prone for the sea to drown me. Or I can stand and take one step. Then…
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Their Awakened Voice: A #Tanka Tuesday-on-a-Wednesday #tankaprose…#haiku #haibun #poetry
Alan Alvarez, Independent Florida Alligator Their Awakened Voice rising from the dust another generation speaks truth to power from where else will progress come than those that struggle to change? Young high-schoolers saw their friends die. They aged beyond the years in heartbeats measured against the scatter of automatic fire. But they…
Frank J. Tassone 