Frank J. Tassone

Month: December 2017

  • Lucia night

    Lucia night

    Originally posted on Haiku out of Africa: in the pouring rain ~ children’s voices like angels ~ for a hundred years — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

  • Eufemia Griffo – Otata, December 2017

    Originally posted on Memorie di una Geisha, multiblog internazionale di Haiku: bowl of rice watching the snowflakes disappear ciotola di riso guardando i fiocchi di neve scomparire * Eufemia Griffo, Otata December 2017

  • Today’s Haiku (December 21, 2017)

    Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 岩あれば岩に噛みつき冬怒涛　　深沢暁子 iwa areba iwa ni kamitsuki fuyudotô if there is a rock it bites a rock winter wild waves                                     Gyoko Fukazawa from ‘Haidan,’ (‘Haiku Stage’) a monthly haiku magazine, February 2016 Issue, Honami Shoten, Tokyo

  • Daily Haiku: Dec. 21, 2017

    Originally posted on Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog: stained window a faded reflection of a spreadsheet by Frank J. Tassone (USA) Haiku in the Workplace, Sept. 27, 2017 ?

  • umi kurete

    umi kurete

    Originally posted on 日本文化の愛 Nipponbunka no ai: 海くれて鴨のこゑほのかに白し umi kurete kamo no koe honoka ni shiroshi Dusk falls upon the sea as Ducks call Faintly in the whiteness. -Matsuo Basho ? Art by Kawase Hasui

  • Scryptic

    Originally posted on Project words: ? Thrilled to appear in the new issue of Scryptic, thanks to Chase & Lori! ? weak winter sun my reflection in your eyes one last time ? candles lit she makes another wish in vain ? spirit broken the bare stumps of severed trees ? failing light how my…

  • #Wayback Wednesday: Christmas bygones…#haibun #haiku #poetry

    A Violent End Tension seizes my brother’s face. Tremors follow the stiffening of every muscle. His eyes widen in anger and terror. He yells and storms upstairs. I follow. We grapple in the guest bedroom, where he’d left his coat. He can’t move me; my root is too deep. I embrace him. He struggles. I…

  • Old Fireplace ~ Akitsu Quarterly (Winter Issue, 2017)

    Originally posted on Komorebi: old fireplace – the warmth of our voices midwinter vecchio camino – nel cuore dell’inverno calde parole Maria Laura Valente Akitsu Quarterly (Winter Issue, 2017) – edited by Robin White – USA