Tag: tanka
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Lunar Amity
(Photo by John McKaveney: Bright Moon) I can’t remember when we met. Was I truly just a boy? Gazing up at you, as you coyly peaked out of the clouds, some star-obscured night. I can certainly remember the loves I brought before you. Our deep embraces, so luscious with savored intimacy, offered up to you like…
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#Haikai Challenge II #12 (4/1/24): Poetry (uta) #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka #kyoka #haiga #renga #HaikaiChallenge
I trust, haijin, that you enjoyed the Equinox—and the lengthening days that followed. Congratulations to the last challenge’s contributors: Haikai Challenge Participants 1. Jules2. Cheryl3. Eugi 4. Peter5. Kerfe6. Melissa 7. Petru Powered by… Mister Linky’s Magical Widgets. Looking ahead: Today is April first, the first day of National Poetry Month! Many of us will…
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3/31/24: time magnolia bloom & contemplating an empty tomb how overwhelming the spring sky #tanka#micropoetry#poetry
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On Scribbling
Scribbling doesn’t relieve the pain of aching joints. Scribbling doesn’t stop the falling torrents, or the sudden streams flowing down our street. Scribbling doesn’t cease the constant hum of rain impacting the roof. Scribbling doesn’t ease the sandpaper sensation in the elbows. Scribbling incarnates the experience of it all. Scribbling bears witness to every facet…
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“stillness…” a #tanka (3/22/24)
3/22/24: listen stillness too deep to listen this silence and out of darkness an owl’s flight #tanka#micropoetry#poetry
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“we have hiked…” a #tanka (3/19/24)
3/19/24: trail we have hiked so many parts of you Appalachian Trail oh, the quixotic dream of being a thru-hiker #tanka #micropoetry #poetry
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#Haikai Challenge II #11 (3/16/24): Spring Equinox (higan) #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka #kyoka #haiga #renga #HaikaiChallenge
I trust you enjoyed whatever Daffodils you might have seen, haijin? Congratulations to last week’s contributors: Haikai Challenge Participants 1. Peter2. Eugi3. Jules 4. Carol Anne5. Suzette Benjamin6. Ben Tonkin 7. Frank J. Tassone Powered by… Mister Linky’s Magical Widgets. Ultreya! The official beginning of Spring arrives in the Northern Hemisphere this Tuesday, March 19th!…
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On “Baby”
“The blues had a baby and they called it rock and roll.” Muddy Waters Someone once said that “Without the word “baby,” there can be no rock and roll.” From over 40 years of listening to the blues’ child, I believe it! How did we adopt a word for the most innocent of human beings as a term of…
Frank J. Tassone 