Tag: tanka
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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?
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Charleston Tours
Charleston singles… the tales of the Swamp Fox told by our driver & then our footsteps across Fort Sumner
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Mortal Moments
That moment when his red-faced fury could turn on me… Or that moment when my back slid across the stones on the bottom of the Animus River, the surface tauntilizingly close, yet out-of-reach. Or that moment when all of my life lies in my past, as I exhale for the last time. cold rain a…
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Divine Tomfoolery
Azurity a bare oak fills with crows fools winding down their day while the sun sets Quetzalcoatl & Coyote’s Actuality plays at an abandoned Drive-In theater So very proud of their handiwork ancient deities basking in their glory on this April Fool’s Day
Frank J. Tassone 