Frank J. Tassone

Month: September 2017

  • Haiku in The Workplace

    Originally posted on Project words: Delighted to appear once again today in Jim Kacian’s Haiku in The Workplace – ? ? that Friday feeling only the network slower than me ? Rachel Sutcliffe Haiku Foundation Haiku in the Workplace 13/09/17 https://www.thehaikufoundation.org/2017/09/13/haiku-in-the-workplace-man-v-machine/

  • #Publication Alert! THF’s Haiku in the Workplace: Man v. Machine

    Pleased to have my latest Haiku appear  in the Haiku Foundation’s Haiku in the Workplace: Man v. Machine    Broken Xerox my ink-stained hands pull out torn paper

  • Daily Haiku: Sept. 13, 2017

    Originally posted on Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog: old album– the colourful life  in black and white by Pravat Kumar Padhy  (India) Frogpond, 36:3, Autumn 2013 ?

  • Bush clovers

    Bush clovers

    Originally posted on 日本文化の愛 Nipponbunka no ai: 白萩の　しきりに露を　こぼしけり Shirahagi no     Shikirini tsuyu wo     Koboshi keri ? The white bush clovers Drop the dewdrops Frequently. -Masaoka Shiki ? Art by Utagawa Toyoharu 歌川豊春

  • Today’s Haiku (September 12, 2017)

    Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): コスモスなどやさしく吹けば死ねないよ　　鈴木しづ子 kosumosu nado yasashiku fukeba shinenai yo             cosmos and other things             swaying gently             how can I die?                                                             Shizuko Suzuki from ‘Haidan,’ (‘Haiku Stage’) a monthly haiku magazine, July 2017 Issue, Honami Shoten, Tokyo Fay’s Note:  Shizuko Suzuki (1919 – ?)

  • Weekly Tanka Prompt Challenge – Week 62 – Mirror & Fun

    #Haiku Happenings #6: Kiwinana offers a #tanka challenge!

  • #Tanka Tuesday 9/12/17…autumn blues../

    Mid-afternoon sunlight All around the apple tree Fallen shriveled leaves How many of my hopes Dried out and collapsed?

  • Weekly Haiku Prompt Challenge – Week 6 – Late & Summer

    Originally posted on Ramblings of a Writer: Weekly Haiku Prompt Challenge – Week 6 – Late & Summer Photo Credit #weeklyhaikuchallenge -6 Simple Guidelines. Using the words “late & summer” or just one or the other, write a Haiku poem. Haiku (also called nature or seasonal haiku) is an unrhymed Japanese verse consisting of three…