Tag: tanka
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Featured Poem Alert: Weekly Poetry Challenge Stars | #PhotoPrompt: Frank Tassone – Word Craft ~ Prose and Poetry
Delighted to learn that Colleen Chesebro has selected my tanka-prose Predation as her featured poem of her 2020 Weekly #Tanka Tuesday #Poetry Challenge No. 178 #PhotoPrompt! For me, Frank’s tanka prose echoes the political realities of our brave new world. I also like that he wrote in the second person as if pointing his figure…
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#Haikai Challenge #140 (5/21/20): summer meadow (natsuno) / Memorial Day #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka #haiga #renga
Have you savored enough fragrance, haijin! Congratulations to last week’s contributors! Haikai Challenge Participants 1. Dave Madden2. Li/Lisa3. Jules4. Peter 5. Xenia Tran6. Revived Writer7. Kerfe Roig8. Eugenia 9. Pat R10. Janice Powered by… Mister Linky’s Magical Widgets. Looking ahead. The United States celebrates Memorial Day this Monday. As I stated in my last Memorial…
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To Journey on, or not to Journey on … a #TankaProse
The road less traveled continues. The choice to follow it or turn back remains. No one else makes that decision. No one else faces the consequence. spring gusts after a morning of rain the effort of taking one step, then another for 23rd May 2020 prompt: Gerry Muse #208 (occasional tanka prose) Walking On
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“verdant canopies…” a #tanka (5/22/20)
5/22/20: prompt-free verdant canopies swallow the last light from an overcast sky even after the rain the joint aches remain #tanka #micropoetry #poetry
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#Haikai Poetry Alert: MTB: 5-Line Japanese Poetic Forms
Originally posted on dVerse: Stock Photo: Takebayashi of Kyoto Welcome to DVerse, Poets! I am Frank Tassone, your host for today’s Meet the Bar, where we delve into poetic craft. This month is National Tanka Month, or #NaTankaMo. In honor of this celebration of tanka, I would like to focus on three of the 5-line…
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“sunlit ripples…” a #tanka (5/21/20)
sunlit ripples as the current continues through the bend all the times I fought when I could have flowed #tanka #micropoetry #poetry I’m hosting MTB today at dVerse Poets, where we explore 5-line Japanese Poetic Forms. The pub is open! Come join us!
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“a sea of stars…” a #tanka (5/21/20)
5/21/20: unprompted a sea of stars obscured by clouds and yet I still hope #tanka #micropoetry #poetry
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Predation: a #Quadrille #TankaProse
When did you imagine that the world revolved around you? Did it take a stray strand of rogue gene to prove otherwise? How utterly predictable of you! a glimpse of pitiable reptillian indifference … we can only blame ourselves for the fix that we’re in for Colleen’s 2020 Weekly #Tanka Tuesday #Poetry Challenge No. 178…
Frank J. Tassone 