Frank J. Tassone

Month: October 2017

  • Samhain Sorrows…a #Halloween #haibun for #dVerse…

    Samhain Sorrows Why do you mock us? With your costumed attire more suitable for the bordello than for posing as one of us. While we, breaching the veil between worlds, feel again the bitter cold and ravenous hunger we knew in life. And what feast do you prepare for us, now? Children crying out, “trick…

  • Rachel Sutcliffe – Okuribi Samhain 9

    Originally posted on Project words: Delighted to appear on Memoirs of a Geisha’s Samahin celebration today! Thank you Eufemia ? day of the dead the stone cold silence ? Rachel Sutcliffe Memoirs of a Geisha Samahin night October 2017 ? Source: Rachel Sutcliffe – Okuribi Samhain 9

  • #Tanka Tuesday #1 10/31/17…Fright and Night this #Halloween…

    Colleen’s Weekly #Poetry Challenge offers a new wrinkle for the month of November, beginning today: use synonyms of the prompts. dark descending tremble in terror as the dead assemble their feast laid bare before sunrise  

  • Rosa Maria Di Salvatore – Okuribi samhain 4

    Originally posted on Memorie di una Geisha, multiblog internazionale di Haiku: luci soffuse di fiaccole e lanterne – notte di Samhain soft lights of torches and lanterns – Samhain night * Rosa Maria Di Salvatore

  • Whispers…

    Originally posted on Sue Vincent's Daily Echo: Silent worlds unseen Beyond imagination Whisper at the door Whose are the voices that call Are they within or without… On which side of the door do I stand? Am I in life or death, or does life to one only seem as death to another? Are…

  • Today’s Haiku (October 31, 2017)

    Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 秋の夜のこぼれしままの水の玉　　宇佐美魚目 aki no yo no koboreshi mama no mizu no tama             autumn night             a water dew stays             where it dropped                                                 Gyomoku Usami from “Haiku Dai-Saijiki” (“Comprehensive Haiku Saijiki”), Kadokawa Shoten, Tokyo, 2006

  • Being

    Being

    Originally posted on Haiku out of Africa: poetry of life ~ our freedom and dignity ~ found in solitude © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa *

  • No fear of the dark

    Originally posted on Jane Dougherty Writes: Today is the first of Colleen Chesebro’s November prompts. The words to use are Night and Fright—or rather their synonyms, not the words themselves. Since today is also Samhain, or Halloween if you prefer, I’ve written a seasonal haibun, and dedicated the first haiku to Colleen. Today marks the…