Tag: tanka
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“The encroaching dark…” a #Tanka (10/27/25)
10/27/25: remain the encroaching dark as my tightening breath shortens, & shortens after such a life only ruins remain #tanka#micropoetry#poetry
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“nightfall…” a #tanka (4/28/25)
4/28/25: streak nightfall crossing the sky a streak passing meteor or an eyeglass stain #tanka#micropoetry#poetry
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Mortal Victory
Revolutionaries know courage is its own reward a martyr smiles, open armed, his stygmata facing his murderers bearing the light in the encroaching darkness as distant torch-bearers look on The Madrilene has failed in all except nerve But his boldness is his victory Inspired by Franscisco Goya’s “The Third of May 1808 (1814)”
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9PM Moonlight Sonata
Blue Moon the duet singing “On this Harvest Moon…” as one shines over their shoulders As the crowd sways in syncopation with Neil Young’s chords played by this Garrison Duet Blue Moon rising with their harmonies until the last chord fades out
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Tai Chi Joy
grasp the sparrow’s tail so many other movements I can’t name how fulfilling that day I practiced the full form
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Mysterium Resurrectionis
as if one breaking dawn makes all the difference perplexed women at the sight of an empty tomb yet blowing in a Sunday morning breeze Cherry tree branches with only the beginning of their blossoms despite the witness of numberless cemetaries a profound hope the ultimate Easter message Life finds a way
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The Tomb’s Testimony
Utter emptiness… The Galilean rabbi, whose preaching attracted multitudes, whose signs enthralled the masses, whose message comforted the afflicted & afflicted the comfortable, lies dead in a stone-cold tomb. As though it could be any other way I should know. Two righteous men placed him inside me. After he endured a travesty-of-a-trial by his co-religionist…
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As a Vacation Ends…
after two plantations and a myriad of flowers and stories the longing to come home When even a ninety-minute flight is 89 too long & post-landing taxi a torture it’s time to come home what use is a vacation without returning?
Frank J. Tassone 