Tag: tanka
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For the Earth: on hiking
One step after another. Along jutting roots and sliding pebbles. Up switchbacks anc across cutouts of plateus. Down one ravine wall to rise up another. All to reach a summit, and to savor its view. A hike: more than just a leisure activity or outdoor activity. It is a way to participate in nature, to…
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Gemini Solarity
Sometimes, there is a softness to sunlight. A pale glow on verdant cherry leaves. A warmth instead of a sear. A swath of cotton instead of a scouring pad. Sometimes, there is a harshness to sunlight. A blinding radiance on worn white siding. A scortch instead of warmth. A drowning in hot coals instead of…
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“Summer wind…” a #tanka (8/15/24) #TankaThursday
8/15/24: wind Summer wind “Waiting for the Sun” playing on repeat a sudden nostalgia for college days #tanka#micropoetry#poetry#TankaThursday
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“breathing in and out…” a #tanka (8/14/24)
8/14/24: clouds breathing in and out… “a cloud of forgetting” for all my thinking & only this breathing for “a cloud of unknowing” #tanka#micropoetry#poetry#thecloudofunknowing
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“a walk past…” a #tanka (8/13/24) #TankaTuesday
8/13/24: blackberries a walk past a front-yeard garden with sunflowers we salivate for the blackberries to come #tanka#micropoetry#poetry for Colleen Chesebro’s 24 Seasons Syllabic Poetry Challenge, No. 47, 8/13/24, Part II: The Beginning of Autumn
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“grasshopper sounds…” a #tanka (8/12/24)
8/12/24: woods grasshopper sounds so many years since “Into the Woods” the recollections keep coming #tanka#micropoetry#poetry
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“breezes…” a #tanka (8/9/24) #TankaThursday
8/9/24: breeze breezes blowing in the thunderclouds standing outside Starbucks a homeless man #tanka#micropoetry#poetry
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“this summer rain…” a #tanka (8/8/24)
8/8/24: lake this summer rain and the water rises at Pine Meadow Lake only I’m not around to see it #tanka#micropoetry#poetry
Frank J. Tassone 