Frank J. Tassone

Month: December 2017

  • First Snow: hatsuyuki

    Originally posted on kanzen sakura: A first posting for Frank J Tassone’s haiku challenge – first snow and evergreens. First snow, one of my favorite prompts and writing challenge.  Our first snow came Saturday! https://frankjtassone.wordpress.com/2017/12/09/haikai-challenge-11-12-9-17-first-snow-or-ever-green-haiku-senryu-haibun-tanka-haiga-renku/ Because Haiku are not given titles, I have posted in the title column. bitter winter night first light of day…

  • A Culinary Marvel: An excerpt from Smuggler’s Notch Travelogue, Part III…#haibun #haiku #poetry #dversepoets

    (yelp.com) Peeling red paint on weather-worn siding of a glorified barn—not an auspicious first impression! We wait to be seated. The décor is both trendy and quaint: Dim light, dark paneling, streamers with various-colored lights, Sombreros on one wall. Seated at last, we order. My enchilada is as good as any I had at home.…

  • carrying

    Originally posted on Project words: carrying off the first white flakes  black cat ?

  • #Haiku Happenings 13: Tia of Adalia Haiku’s latest Haiku appears in the 22nd Indian Kukai!

  • Today’s Haiku (December 11, 2017)

    Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): ウォーキングマシン師走の街眼下　　小沢麻結 wôking mashin shiwasu no machi ganka walking machine… December town under my eyes                                     Mayu Ozawa from ‘Haiku,’ a monthly haiku magazine, March 2016 Issue, Kabushiki Kaisha Kadokawa, Tokyo

  • Daily Haiku: Dec. 11, 2017

    Originally posted on Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog: blossom tea– the geisha drinks her reflection ? by Stanford M. Forrester, Author (USA) the toddler’s chant ?

  • a flower in winter

    a flower in winter

    Originally posted on 日本文化の愛 Nipponbunka no ai: 冬ひと日  うれひある身の  花を提ぐ Fuyu hito hi      Urei aru mi no      Hana wo sagu ? The winter day, One with sorrow carries a flower in the hand. -Iida Dakotsu ? ? Art by Hayashi Waichi, ” Camellia in Winter” ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?…

  • phones are useless they just ring and ring

    Originally posted on the other bunny: albert einstein never memorized the speed of sound. he said it was in a book anytime he really needed it. today my phone is bombarded with junk calls for a ‘cruise’ i have won. but they have my number on a list so they keep calling. ? choosing a…