Frank J. Tassone

Month: December 2017

  • Haiku for a New Year by Carol Purington

    Originally posted on Haiku Art Site: Warm kitchen corner The rocking chair bumps along a rug of braided time Winter scarecrow: his parka pockets lumpy with snowballs January thaw The top of the picnic table collects sky Attic loom Brights and shadows cross-hatch the wideboard wall by Carol Purington All Rights Reserved Please visit Woodslawn…

  • (g) hc 14 LIGHT; a hope, a wish, a blessing (renga) (12.31)

    #Haiku Happenings #12: Jules’ latest #renga for my current  #haikai challenge! via (g) hc 14 LIGHT: a hope, a wish, a blessing (renga) (12.31)

  • Daily Haiku: Dec. 31, 2017

    Originally posted on Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog: losing you– a wash of deep blue across the sky ? ? by Mary Kendall  (USA) Editor’s Choice, cattails, October 2017 ?

  • Originally posted on Lady Nyo's Weblog: (taken tonight, December 30th, 2017, looking East) ? The full moon above floats on blackened velvet sea- poet’s perfection! But who does not yearn for a crescent in lavender sky? – Jane Kohut-Bartels Copyrighted, 2017 – (“Moon” originally appeared in “A Seasoning of Lust”, 2sd edition,  2016, Amazon.com)

  • Catch & Release

    Originally posted on Zander In Print: Catching releasing — Stomping the snow from my boots Sweeping the threshold Flurries of moments fly free Making room for eighteen new Z for Frank J. Tassone’s Haikai Challenge #14 Kigo: New Year Happy New Year!   Zander ? ?

  • new

    Originally posted on Project words: new year’s eve by firelight I finish my last line ? ? ? ? ?

  • Speechless . . . (a tanka)

    Originally posted on A Poet in Time: ? ? ? the statue of David stands so tall in the gallery, I am speechless in the Italian I never learned ? ? Published in Ekphrasis: The British Haiku Society Member’s Anthology, 2017 ? The statue of David by Michelangelo is in the Accademia Gallery in Florence, Italy.…

  • chill winter wind

    chill winter wind

    Originally posted on 日本文化の愛 Nipponbunka no ai: 木枯や鐘に小石を吹きあてる kogarashi ya kane ni koishi o fukiateru The chill wind Lifts pebbles to the bell And strikes them upon it. -Yosa Buson ? Art by Ito Shinsui, “A Cold Winter Wind” ?