Frank J. Tassone

Month: January 2018

  • Hawk 5

    Originally posted on Jane Dougherty Writes: I think it’s five. Lost count. This haiku is another one on Frank Tassone’s ‘hawk’ theme. ? Through yellow-rimmed eye, pure as winter stream water, hawk watches the world.

  • Flares

    Originally posted on haiku tree: scattered clouds moonlight flares light my dreams ?

  • Haiku del giorno – Daily haiku

    Originally posted on Vento del giorno: ? ? ? Uemura Shoen ? cielo da neve – aspettare che cada il primo fiocco snow sky – waiting for the first flake to fall © A.M.

  • Haiku Windows: airplane window

    Originally posted on Bending moments: ? blurred window  farewell tears cloud my eyes  ? Source: Haiku Windows: airplane window

  • A Katana’s Lament: a #Tankaprose…#tanka #haibun #poetry

    What? You expected gratitude? That you forged me of steel in the hottest flames? More than two-hundred folds to ensure my density? Sharpened my edge so that, in a master’s hand, I could slice through bamboo in a single stroke? Then you ignored the wisdom of the old master: “Weapons are unhappy tools…”   barren…

  • Stardust edited by Valentina Ranaldi – Adams (Jan. 22, 2017)

    Originally posted on Il fiume scorre ancora: Valentina Ranaldi Adams presents Stardust Haiku Issue 13 – January 2018. Congrats to all my haiku friends included in this issue. Here’s my haiku: ? snowfall the silver trail of a falling star ~ Eufemia Griffo https://drive.google.com/…/1FYCY9bgG56QycvDIFOXYlXEMMt…/view

  • Today’s Haiku (January 24, 2018)

    Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 狐火のひとつが違ふ動きせる　　浅井陽子 kitsunebi no hitotsu ga chigau ugoki seru             fox deity lanterns             one of them makes             a different move                                                 Yoko Asai from ‘Haidan,’ (‘Haiku Stage’) a monthly haiku magazine, September 2017 Issue, Honami Shoten, Tokyo

  • Plead

    Originally posted on haiku tree: gray sky a few branches sway pleading for rain ?