Frank J. Tassone

Month: January 2018

  • Diana’s Admonition: A #haibun for #SuperBlueBloodMoon…#haiku #poetry

      Do I scandalize you, mortals? How even when full, I hide my face, as though blushing in shame for some crime? Why should I not bow as my mother passes before me? Do you not reverence your own mothers? And do not trouble me about that hunter, again! How many of you would muster…

  • “Winter Widow”, a haibun

    Originally posted on Lady Nyo's Weblog: ? At the window she saw the naked trees of winter lit by a slivered crescent moon, casting thin shadows upon frigid ground. Skeletons in the moonlight, these ghostly trees, as brittle as her own internal landscape. Little flesh about her, a fresh widow, reduced by grief now…

  • #Haibun: Paris and Roses

    Originally posted on Charmed Chaos: We walk the streets of Paris for eternity, not caring what day or time it is. Magical moments catching the light in golden drenched photos. You buy me a bouquet of red and white roses. Returning to our flat we take a self-portrait in the gilded oval mirror. How young…

  • Haiku Windows –

    Originally posted on Project words: ? ? Delighted to appear today in Haiku Windows – ? hospital waiting room outside the window gathering clouds ? Rachel Sutcliffe Haiku Windows 31/01/18 https://www.thehaikufoundation.org/2018/01/31/haiku-windows-waiting-room-window/

  • Haiku window edited by Kathy Munroe

    Originally posted on Il fiume scorre ancora: Delighted to be part Haiku Windows edited by Kathy Munroe, the new column of the Haiku foundation. This week theme is waiting room window. Congrats to everyone poets included in this new column. ~ waiting room a scent of wisteria from the window Eufemia Griffo Italy https://www.thehaikufoundation.org/2018/01/31/haiku-windows-waiting-room-  

  • nuanced

    Originally posted on petrujviljoen: the sky, light-shadowed raven wings the firmanent streaming nuances … Linked to Frank J Tassone’s Haikai Challenge

  • Chatter

    Originally posted on haiku tree: the tv chatters on and on we eat in silence ?

  • Haiku: Morrigan

    Originally posted on Jane Dougherty Writes: A follow-on Morrigan reference for Frank’s challenge. ? Black wings, ragged flight, crow surveys desolation— bloody battlefield.