Frank J. Tassone

Month: December 2017

  • Transformations – December 15, 2017 (haiku)

    Originally posted on Poet's Corner: pale sunshine caresses a snowflake puddle of water ice fog white lace on leafless trees fall becomes winter gsk ’17

  • Daily Haiku: Dec. 15, 2017

    Originally posted on Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog: glassy lake flocks of snow geese pull up the moon ? by Debbie Strange (Canada) First Place Autumn Moon Haiku Contest, 2017 ?

  • how beautiful it is!

    how beautiful it is!

    Originally posted on 日本文化の愛 Nipponbunka no ai: うつくしく油の氷る燈かな utsukshiku abura no kôru tomoshi kana How beautiful it is! The very oil has frozen In my lamp! -Kobayashi Issa ? Art by Kawase Hasui ?

  • singing

    Originally posted on Project words: singing loudest at the carol concert the child’s excitement ? ? ? ? ? ? ?

  • #Throwdown Thursday 12/14/17: December 14, 2012…#haibun #haiku #poetry

    My father died of pancreatic cancer on this day in 2011. A year later, the Sandy Hook shooting occurred. These two traumatic events have intertwined in my life in ways that I can’t even imagine. The following haibun bears witness to that first anniversary of Dad’s death, and that tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary. December…

  • Pealing Back the Years – #Haibun #Senryu

    Originally posted on Trent's World (the Blog): Pealing back the Years I am walking through the village, fighting a cold wind.  Random flakes are stinking my face.  What’s that?  Ah, it’s the clarion sounds from the church reverberating through the town.  A chill goes down my spine as I remember the sounds of yesteryear and…

  • Daily Haiku, Dec. 14, 2017

    Originally posted on Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog: senryu getting fired— hairdresser appointment a new hairstyle by Doris Pascolo (Italy) Haiku in the Workplace, July 12, 2017 ?

  • Today’s Haiku (December 14, 2017)

    Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 月光を掬ひ舞ひたる枯葉かな　　利普苑るな gekkô o sukui maitaru kareha kana scooping the moonlight a withered leaf dances                         Luna Leefen from “Shûkan Haiku” (“Haiku Weekly”) #445, 11/1/2015 Issue, http://weekly-haiku.blogspot.com ?