Tag: tanka
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“no time…” a #tanka (11/17/23)
11/17/23: putter no time to putter around late foliage and in the morning tossed sheets #tanka #micropoetry #poetry
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“Blue Ways…” a #tanka (11/15/23)
11/15/23: back roads “Blue Ways…” a journey taken along back roads how I could park there and savor your scent #tanka #micropoetry #poetry
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Incendiary Transcendence
Avocado How that hard, green vegetable forms the mushy medium of a dip so iconic. mashed up to its consistency in the first month with sleet a dour chill running through this November air Jalapeño Such a fierce and fiery red pepper to “kick it up a notch…” Diced up and poured out like a…
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“how…” a #tanka (11/13/23)
11/13/23: power how we rely on the power a ray of light at dawn #tanka#micropoetry#poetry
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Armistice
Michael looked over the battlefield. A muddy plain littered with corpses. The Somme still glinted red in the morning sun. So many souls to accompany to their personal parousias. A figure in black approached. The archangel sighed. War had chosen to embody the Morrigan again. She stopped two paces ahead of him. Her ravens circled…
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“below…” a #tanka (11/10/23)
11/10/23: nightlight below the river of stars this home a dark hallway in need of a new nightlight #haiku#micropoetry#poetry
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“a tumble…” a #tanka (11/9/23)
11/09/23: tumble a tumble down a cliff such fate only a fallen hero suffers #tanka#micropoetry#poetry
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“fallen foliage…” a #tanka (11/6/23)
11/6/23: meadow fallen foliage litters the fading green meadow suddenly waxing this darkness #tanka#micropoetry#poetry
Frank J. Tassone 