Short Tassel Poems

The tassel of Bai
Ethnic girl's hat made of silk,
Worth beauty to try....

Read More

Repunzel’s high in the castle
With hair’s neat knots in a tassel 
This sweet young flower
So blond in the tower
Is for beauticians a hassle...

Read More

there once a maid from the castle
whose weaving was rather facile
	her warp matched her weft
	but developed a cleft
she covered it with a tassel!...

Read More

By tassel-like tentacles the cicada suck the clear dew,
The sparse parasol trees its voice penetrates through.
Higher position makes its sounds heard far and wide,
It’s not because of the support autumn winds provide.r
(tran.)...

Read More

we took pity on you poor kitty 
but now this kitty has no pity,
He's king of our castle 
exposing his tassel
while on our new couch looking pretty.



25/10/2017
Contest Picture Prompt Contest:
Sponsored by Julie Leigh Rodeheaver...

Read More

CASTLE
I am collecting all of the dust to build your castle
Do you need any more beautiful tassel
We should devote our lives for the best of the best battle
Don't you realize the meaning of the hassle
Tr?n Minh Hi?n Hien Tran Orlando August 11, 2016...

Read More

TCD     GRADUATION



Cobblestone, campanile,
Mortar boards, smiles,  laughter,
Library, pigeon, tassel,
Friends,  classmates,  tea after.




.........................................................................

Note:    

TCD  =  Trinity College Dublin,  Ireland...

Read More

Juxtapose two conflicting minds.
Against one another they tassel.
Never to complete their argument,
Nick is stuck as mediator.
And it is not a fun job.

Proposition after proposition,
All movements are mirrored.
Rather than agree, they fight.
Kind Nick is torn apart.
Everyday he worries about the outcome....

Read More

got a PHD
from the universityl of
hard knocks
the sheep skin framed
and hanging on my wall
reminding me of
my accomplishments
graduating with honors
top of my class
no one could touch me
studied hard for that
as I move the tassel
from the left to right
shaking hands with
those that taught me
on graduation night...

Read More

A knife in the pen

Dispensing blood's inks

A shroud of mind

In each cell thinks

The sentence is endless

Each thought is perturbed

The notion of freedom

Becomes more disturbed

Fire the match to the torch to the castle

Instead use a cap, a gown, and a tassel

Such children's toys

Deserve to be broken

They are tools of destruction

Like words never spoken...

Read More

how many mornings make a life? 
as little ones leave
by your footsteps
to a waiting world
and you to a working world
how many mornings
make a career or
a scholar grow
to turn a tassel
and toss a smile
at their inner self?
how many mornings lead
to the gold watch
the plaque
the days of solitude 
contemplation
and quiet observation
of other people’s mornings?

1/6/20...

Read More

Spirit aglow
A Jew is Nobility
A King in a Castle
From his merry beard
 To each ritual tassel

In Sabbath regalia
Blessing sparkling wine
Of learned Discourse enamored,
 In delicacies enshrined

His Wife by his side
Beaming Approbation
His Children tender shoots  
 Bright sprouts of Creation

No matter the locale
The era, the clime
The Jew is the Master
 Of Sabbath's unfettered Time...

Read More

Graduation that one spacial day
All proms gone
Last kiss goodbye
Letterman jacket hung up

No more teachers 
No more books
No more teachers dirty looks
The last book seen

With written memories 
Signed by friends
The last yearbook ever to be seen
Tassel now on the left

Leaving these memories behind
Tears flowing with love lost eyes
Hearts broken our last goodbye
School is over

Reality now
Sets in...

Read More

---
  the sunset kiss along a lullaby moment, holds my being in absolute bliss,
in such a way that i shall never forget, for i can feel my heart whispering this
                           oh yes,
     the soft echo of your name with mine, such love tangling feels divine

      - i love the way your thoughts tassel through my flowing hair
                   like the calling of the falling wind, over and over again - 




________________
 a romantic scribble...

Read More

In a boat
Rowing around the moat
Of my family’s latest castle

The one with towers and a flag with a tassel
And it really seems to me a lot of hassle
That the drawbridge is up and not down

The water’s very brown
I could drown

* based on Prince Magnus of Sweden, who nearly drowned during the construction of the castle drawbridge (another time, he allegedly leapt into the moat believing he saw a mermaid).

18th May, Jack Horne for Nette’s Trois par Huit a Bridge contest...

Read More

The wind has yet to blow 
two feathers along the same path 
or tassel twin snowflakes to the ground 
Nor will the wind ever see 
similarity 
in all the clouds it pushes around 
The same applies to the twin-less waves 
it's carried 
and yet to carry 
who've crashed 
and yet to crash 
upon no two similar grains of sand 
Amidst all this failure 
to bring together 
no two objects alike 
It's a wonder that finally 
it's brought together you and me 
and managed to get it right...

Read More