Frank J. Tassone

Month: August 2017

  • #Tanka Tuesday 8/29/17: as summer ends…

    late August morning the absence in the backyard of many songbirds the morning chill outside matches the one in my heart #EndOfSummer2017

  • incoming

    Originally posted on Project words: incoming tide wave after wave of sunlight ? ? ?

  • Daily Haiku: Aug. 29, 2017

    Originally posted on Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog: Buta miso second bowl of rice aged rice ladle ? by Yuta Kawamura  (Japan) (N.B. “The longer a miso is aged, the deeper its flavor gets. It is something akin to haiku,” Kawamura says.) https://mcmurrayuniversity.jimdo.com/graduate/2016/ ?

  • #haiku happenings #7: THF’s Book of the Week: only sounds

    Source: Book of the Week: only sounds

  • Today’s Haiku (August 28, 2017)

    Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 星月夜隠れがちなる言の葉も　　瀧澤和治 hoshzukiyo kakuregachi naru koto no ha mo             starry night             some words are             shy                                                 Kazuharu Takizawa from “Ganymede”, Vol. 62, December 1, 2014 issue,  Dorinsha, Tokyo, Japan

  • My latest… #Haibun #Poetry: a Lunar Eclipse Unseen | Image Curve

    a Lunar Eclipse Unseen Quarter to three in the morning. Clouds roll in — blocking the moon. I had set the alarm to wake me at eight minutes past three. My plan was to wake Frankie, so we’d see the “red moon.” Thanks to a bathroom call — and those clouds — I don’t need…

  • Update Info

    #haiku happenings #5: Fay Aoyagi’s #haiku and an announcement: her latest book is available!

  • first place !

    Originally posted on Project words: ? Delighted to appear first place in the Neo-classical Haiku section and in haiku of merit in the Shintai Haiku section of the new issue of World Haiku Review ? spring showers racing each other to the stream ? ? after the storm still ivy climbs the fallen fence ?…