Frank J. Tassone

Month: January 2018

  • “Do We Censor Ourselves in What We Write?”

    Originally posted on Lady Nyo's Weblog: ? Very recently I received an email asking to be ‘friends’ on facebook.  The person was a woman I knew slightly during Y2K.  Our relationship wasn’t close and she wasn’t a literary friend. I have no problem adding friends to fb, but when I told her I was a…

  • Today’s Haiku (January 13, 2018)

    Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 時雨るゝやパンなど焼いてもてなしぬ　　星野立子 shigururu ya pan nado yaite motenashinu             winter rain             I entertain the guests             by baking a bread                                                 Tatsuko Hoshino from ‘Haiku,’ a monthly haiku magazine, December 2016 Issue, Kabushiki Kaisha Kadokawa, Tokyo Fay’s Note:  Tatsuko Hoshino (1903-1984)

  • #Haikai Challenge #16 (1/13/18): Freedom #haiku #senryu #tanka #haibun #renga #haiga

    Photo by Jerónimo Bernot on Unsplash   Well, haijin, what a ride so far! From sub-artic to spring-like to freezing once again! Yet you braved the cold to take the challenge:   Haikai Challenge Participants 1. Ken Gierke / rivrvlogr 2. Jules 3. Petru J Viljoen 4. Linda Lee Lyberg 5. Jane Dougherty 6. Merril D. Smith 7.…

  • #Senryu Saturday (1/13/18): Three Senryu from #haikuchallenge tweets…#haiku #poetry

    unsplash-logoKah Lok Leong “Silent Night”her Portuguese familywon’t get the memo#haikuchallenge (silent)#haiku #senryu #micropoetry #poetry #Christmas2017 #SilentNight — Frank J. Tassone (@fjtassone2) December 24, 2017 Laoxi saying “no problem, so no blame” morning sunlight #haikuchallenge (blame) #haiku #senryu #micropoetry #poetry — Frank J. Tassone (@fjtassone2) December 29, 2017 January the sinus problem returns #haikuchallenge (problem)#haiku #senryu…

  • Life & Love

    Life & Love

    Originally posted on Haiku out of Africa: spring, summer, autumn ~ love a much deeper season ~ the winter too soon — Lize Bard © Haiku out of Africa

  • Cloudless

    Originally posted on haiku tree: sun fills a cloudless sky the wren chirps ?

  • Haibun: Nyuk nyuk y’all

    Originally posted on kanzen sakura: As a child of the 50’s, I spent many hours in front of the TV. When I got home from school I would plop in front of it with a snack on the floor in front of me. Often an apple or an orange, sometimes a dumdum sucker or a…

  • Sea of Chardonnay

    Sea of Chardonnay

    Originally posted on Smell The Coffee: Ignored chardonnay  she celebrates her birthday  buoyed by life’s highs ©Vivian Zems (#senryu) January Writing Prompts 10/31 ? ?