Frank J. Tassone

Month: November 2017

  • A #Tanka-Prose #haibun for A Month with Yeats: Day 30

    Thank you, Jane, for your guidance on this wonderful, November journey. And now, for the thirtieth…   via Pinterest.com   “And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow,” —W.B. Yeats     Bloodsword Sunset   The first chill is in the air. The last withered leaves scatter in a passing Autumn…

  • #ThrowdownThursday 11/30/17…my latest on .@ImageCurve: Scattered So Early #Haibun #haiku #poetry

    Scattered So Early BY FRANK J. TASSONE · 30TH NOVEMBER 2017 A body in full rebellion Stomach cramps nausea vertigo A mind in disarray Swirling thoughts Songs Mania rising, falling Winds in full swirl Chime singing, Newly budding maples swaying   A clock that ticks mercilessly on   morning sky indifference to suffering or relief…

  • Haiku in The Workplace

    Originally posted on Project words: ? Delighted to appear once again today in Jim Kacian’s Haiku in The Workplace – ? office rivalry my co worker’s Christmas tree bigger than mine ? Rachel Sutcliffe Haiku Foundation Haiku in the Workplace 29/11/17 https://www.thehaikufoundation.org/2017/11/29/haiku-in-the-workplace-office-rivalry/

  • A child’s grave … (Tanka Art)

    Originally posted on A Poet in Time: ? Also appearing in Skylark, a Tanka Journal, Volume 5, Issue 2, Winter 2017 is this piece of Tanka Art. The photograph was taken by me in the cemetery of Holy Trinity Church (where William Shakespeare is buried) in Stratford-Upon-Avon, UK in 2015. ?

  • Fluttering

    Originally posted on Bill Waters ~~ Haiku: all around the sleeping cat shadows of birds fluttering *   *   *   *

  • #Haiku Happenings #8

    Eva Maria Limbach’s latest haiku! http://evamaria-limbach2.blogspot.com/2017/11/blog-post_30.html?m=1

  • Haibun 61

    Originally posted on Michael Rehling: giving up on zen the trick i think is to not try. at love. at art. at spirituality. only a fool looks for any of these. they just stumble in your front door. drunk as skunks and asking for you to cook a meal for them. do it. you will…

  • Daily Haiku: Nov. 30, 2017

    Originally posted on Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog: senryu mother-in-law: at lunch I try to swallow her words by Debbi Antebi (UK) Modern Haiku, Vol. 43:2, Summer 2012 ?