Tag: tanka
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“fresh birdsongs…” a #tanka (4/23/20)
4/23/20: promt-free fresh birdsongs the magnolias beside the Mahwah delta a southern-looking landscape in suburban New York #tanka #micropoetry #poetry
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Turnabout: a #NaPoWriMo2020 / #GloPoWriMo2020 #tankaprose
“One can live without having survived.” Carolyn Forche A fruit basket, delivered to a hotel room–covered in lighter fluid. A patronizing condescension during a class introduction: “one of our special people.” The abject fear with which the six-foot-something boy in a man’s body commanded. If only he had understood the old Portugese saying: “Beware the…
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“the droning of…” a #tanka (4/22/20)
4/22/20: prompt-free the droning of lawnmowers and leafblowers on this Earth Day as sunlit trees sway in a cold spring wind #tanka #micropoetry #poetry #NaPoWriMo2020 #GloPoWriMo2020
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Of Love and Hate: A #NaPoWriMo2020 / #GloPoWriMo2020 mock-translated #Gendai – #Haibun
Can love and Hate occupy the same relationship? Or is a Greek God’s pursuit of a nymph the same lust for power humanity has indulged for millenia? As though Dapne had a choice. As though Apollo allowed her one. qui tamen insequitur pennis adiutus Amoris,ocior est requiemque negat tergoque fugacisinminet et crinem sparsum cervicibus adflat.…
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“empty room…” a #tanka (4/21/20)
4/21/20: unprompted empty room the silence after the last echoes of their voices fade away #tanka #micropoetry #poetry #NaPoWriMo2020 #GloPoWriMo2020
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“a week…” a #tanka (4/19/20)
4/19/20: unprompted a week of gray skies and cold rain shattered by sunlight the hiker wants the outside while the haijin keeps writing #tanka #micropoetry #poetry #NaPoWriMo2020 #GloPoWriMo2020
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Novel-Coronal Hope: a #NaPoWriMo2020 / #GloPoWriMo2020 #AmericanSentence #TankaProse
“…so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” Gandalf, “The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring,” J.R.R. Tolkien We do not face the abyss alone, for the…
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#Haikai Challenge #135 (4/18/20): New Moon #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka #haiga #renga
Enjoy your Easter Lillies, haijin? Congratulations to last week’s contributors: Haikai Challenge Participants 1. Frank J. Tassone2. Dave Madden3. Li/Lisa 4. Jules5. Xenia Tran6. Eugenia 7. Mosshawk8. Peter9. Revived Writer Powered by… Mister Linky’s Magical Widgets. Onward! We often savor the full moon. Many past #haikai challenges called for poems on various ones throughout the…
Frank J. Tassone 