Frank J. Tassone

Month: December 2017

  • Autumn Poems, some tanka….

    Originally posted on Lady Nyo's Weblog: ? Autumn Tanka   I look up at blue Sky this morning, watch leaves fall- Whirling, colored tears. Clip my face like dull razors, The stroking of memory. – Shooting star crosses Upended bowl of blue night Imagination- Fires up with excited gaze! A moment– and all is gone.…

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    #Haiku Happenings #6: Fay Aoyagi’s latest #haiga!

  • 2017 Haiga Header Sampling 002 December

    Originally posted on A 19 Planets Art Blog 2010/2024: ? ? ? ? ? ? 11-30-2017 #1 Haiku Stairs starless night only November rain falling to earth (tanka collaborations invited) ** November Rain is the Haikai Challenge #9 prompt from Frank J. Tassone.

  • Haiku for November 18, 2017

    Originally posted on Bill Waters ~~ Haiku: an afternoon of windy rain — and a migraine Making art out of something unpleasant… Hey, why not, right?  :- ) Published in Brass Bell: A Haiku Journal (http://brassbellhaiku.blogspot.com/2017/12/haiku-written-on-november-18-2017.html), 12/1/17. *    *    *    *

  • Daily Haiku Special Feature: Dec. 1, 2017

    Originally posted on Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog: Lenard D. Moore, longtime author, editor, and haiku poet, (among many genres), is always at work on a new creative project. His latest, just released, is: One Window’s Light: A Collection of Haiku. Moore, Associate Professor of English at the University of Mount Olive in North Carolina– teaching…

  • a time of change

    a time of change

    Originally posted on 日本文化の愛 Nipponbunka no ai: しぐれゆく四方の梢の色よりも秋は夕のかはるなりけり sigure yuku yomo no kozuwe no iro yori mo aki fa yufube no kafaru narikeri Touched by drizzling rain, All around, the treetops With their colours say Autumn in evening is A time of change, indeed. -Fujiwara no Sada’ie Art by Hasui Kawase

  • Issue 24 is UP right on time and HUGE!

    Originally posted on Project words: via Issue 24 is UP right on time and HUGE! Very pleased to appear in the December issue of Failed Haiku ? gone midnight the darkness of my dreams ? the length of this icicle my thermal tights ? never quite straight forward fractured moon ? sudden wind the scarecrow…

  • Issue 24 is UP right on time and HUGE!

    Originally posted on failed haiku – a journal of English Senryu: Well, folks, issue 24 is here for your reading pleasure. Some wonderful work, but feast your eyes on the haiga in this one for sure. I want to thank you all for being a part of this thing that started as an ‘experiment’ two years…