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A Vernaltide Warning of my Vices and Virtues: A #TankaTuesday (on a Wednesday) #TankaProse
Photo by Henry Be on Unsplash “On a hot, summer night: would you offer your throat to the wolf with the red roses?” –Meatloaf Warning: Do not awaken my favorite vice. For lust will pulsate through my trembling arteries with every quickened beat of a suddenly hungry heart. Do not let me imagine all of…
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My New York: A City Love Affair
I could write about the first time I saw New York City. How the skyline of Manhattan drew the wows only a child utters at their sight. How the Circle line showed me the Empire State Building, the Chrysler Tower, the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center–all in their lit glory. I…
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Song of Boudica
Why, Romans? You came to my home while my husband burned and declared yourselves my master. When I dared to disagree, you flogged me in my own courtyard and raped my daughters. Why? I ask you, instead: why do you dare to ask? tears that will not dry a murder of crows…
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Powerless pleasures #haiku #haibun #poetry
Nor’Easter. the house trembles under buffering winds. Fresh inches of snow accumulate. A blackout since morning. But what a fire! winter storm A pasta dinner watching snow
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#Haikai Challenge #16 (1/13/18): Freedom #haiku #senryu #tanka #haibun #renga #haiga
Photo by Jerónimo Bernot on Unsplash Well, haijin, what a ride so far! From sub-artic to spring-like to freezing once again! Yet you braved the cold to take the challenge: Haikai Challenge Participants 1. Ken Gierke / rivrvlogr 2. Jules 3. Petru J Viljoen 4. Linda Lee Lyberg 5. Jane Dougherty 6. Merril D. Smith 7.…
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Merry Christmas! #haiku #poetry #Christmas
This concludes my special day-of-Christmas-eve posting. I will take off tomorrow. Merry Christmas, everyone! See you on Tuesday! green Christmas these gathering clouds promise a white Christmas
Frank J. Tassone 