Frank J. Tassone

Month: November 2017

  • Haibun 55

    Originally posted on Michael Rehling: reality passes us by creation is not up to god. the reality we live in is our own invention. right or wrong. an elaborate fabrication of our very tender minds. our psyches create both good and bad with equal irregularity. blood in our veins. blood on our hands. i have…

  • Haiku – Thanksgiving

    Originally posted on qbit: Pine needles give way Holiday feast of rain, mud – Thankful for new boots ? ? For Frank’s Haikai Challenge

  • Today’s Haiku (November 23, 2017)

    Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 冬薔薇傷を重ねていたるかな　　　曽根　毅（つよし） fuyusôbi kizu o kasaneteitaru kana winter rose… adding more scars                                     Tsuyoshi Sone from ‘Haidan,’ (‘Haiku Stage’) a monthly haiku magazine, May 2017 Issue, Honami Shoten, Tokyo

  • #Publication Alert 11/23/17 #haibun #haiku #poetry

    Happy to appear in Product Poet’s latest paper! https://paper.li/ProductPoet/1361288961#/ Click “#haiku,” then “all haiku.” It’s the post that begins “#Wayback Wednesday 11/22/17…”

  • A #Tanka for A Month with Yeats: Day Twenty-Two

    ‘I wander by the edge Of this desolate lake Where wind cries in the sedge:’ —W.B. Yeats Peter Smyly [CC BY-SA 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons   windswept lake daylight the only witness to our moans and sighs her passion-spent hand caresses my battle-scarred, tear-stained cheek   for Jane Dougherty’s A Month with Yeats: Day…

  • #WaybackWednesday 11/22/2017 … on restless reflections #haibun #haiku #poetry

    Author’s Note: my cousin dies in a motorcycle accident some years ago. This haibun reflects the events of the day after his funeral.   Restless Day After   A Nickelodeon version of Cinderella plays in the family room. Bella, our neighbor’s golden retriever, barks at a passing dog and walker. The pine-scented aroma from our…

  • What remains…

    Originally posted on Sue Vincent's Daily Echo: A perfect day ends Delicately cradled close Against memory Forgetting is too easy Released, only gold remains * ?

  • Haiku in The Workplace

    Originally posted on Project words: ? Delighted to appear once again today in Jim Kacian’s Haiku in The Workplace – ? team meeting one colleague gets what I’m saying ? Rachel Sutcliffe Haiku Foundation Haiku in the Workplace 22/11/17 https://www.thehaikufoundation.org/2017/11/22/haiku-in-the-workplace-miscommunication/