Frank J. Tassone

Month: December 2017

  • Feminine

    Feminine

    #Haiku Happenings #8: M.G. Iannucci‘s latest #tanka!

  • solstice

    Originally posted on Ontheland: winter turning point— tilted toward peak darkness, slouching back to light. ~ In response to Frank J Tassone Haikai challenge #12 — winter solstice.  ©2017 Ontheland

  • Merry Christmas

    Originally posted on the other bunny: Not sure I will able to – or whether it makes any sense – update this on-going journal for the remainder of 2017, I wish every reader and submitter of works a merry Christmas and a happy New Year or whatever you celebrate. Without you, generous writers, this journal…

  • Blithe Spirit, 27.4

    Originally posted on Il fiume scorre ancora: kakemono … I write my name next to yours kakemono… ho scritto il mio nome accanto al tuo * Eufemia Griffo

  • Daily Haiku: Dec. 20, 2017

    Originally posted on Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog: midnight moon … a dream answers the question by Barbara Tate  (USA) Never Ending Story, July 25, 2017 ?

  • The Wonder of Haiku: Quendryth Young

    Originally posted on Australian Haiku Society: I write haiku because I must. Since childhood there has been a progression through scribbled jingles, ballads, bush verse and free verse, until I discovered haiku. This is how it happened: in 2004 I won a voucher in the Lismore City Council’s writing competition which I exchanged for my…

  • Barren Trees

    Barren Trees

    Originally posted on Smell The Coffee: Where do dead leaves go? now mulch under falling snow daubed in mud and rain barren trees remain silent awaiting promise of spring ©Vivian Zems (#Tanka) Image by Donna Wilson Colleen’s weekly poetry challenge #63~cover, precipitation synonyms

  • Ka o Saguru

    Ka o Saguru

    Originally posted on 日本文化の愛 Nipponbunka no ai: 香を探る梅に藏見る軒端哉 ka o saguru ume ni kura miru nokiba kana Seeking out the scent Of plum, I find them by the storehouse Underneath the eaves. -Matsuo Basho