Tag: senryu
-
#Haiku (5/26/25)
5/26/25: night owl night owl yet another red eye passes overhead #haiku #senryu #micropoetry #poetry
-
An Encore: Going Somewhere? A #sonnet #haibun
An encore of a haibun sonnet from 2018… gray sky an aching lull in creativity The woosh of passing wind as I move on, the bam!bam!bam! of hammers fall away. These wheels that crunch on gravel just beyond, a highway exit ramp to the blue way, where life slows down with every town I…
-
#Haiku (4/20/25)
4/20/25: National Weed Day how curious this year’s “4-20 blaze it!” Easter Sunday #haiku #senryu #micropoetry #napowrimo2025glopowrimo #poetry
-
Charleston Tours
Charleston singles… the tales of the Swamp Fox told by our driver & then our footsteps across Fort Sumner
-
#Haiku (4/12/25) #senryu
4/12/25: Walk on your Wild Side day the wolf with the red rose in her teeth… tango nights #haiku #senryu #micropoetry #napowrimo2025glopowrimo #poetry
-
A Passionate Reconciliation
That day you apologized for ripping me a new one. Saying, “You’re my man,” your arms around me, as I slouched on the couch. The heat of the moment telling me what your heart meant Slowly life seeps into my veins as I shed my hurt an anticipation of a horizontal makeup The heat of…
-
Number-essence
one day the temperature dropping from Spring to winter Two times waiting for rain to lighten up Three old guys around a teacher’s room lunch table talking all the shit you can imagine four seasons although who can say five fingers to count off the ways this ends
-
Coleridgian Contrast
not the “Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner” No wedding guests to mesmerize, nor grand stories to tell… no Albatross around my neck breaking dawn I’m no bane of goodwill birds, doomed to watch friends die… no grandiose dreams of Elysium living Just another wayfarer on the road to anywhere, soon to seek the way back…
Frank J. Tassone 