Frank J. Tassone

Month: January 2018

  • Cold wind

    Originally posted on Adas Poetry Alcove: Haiku Shuukan #3 (’18) Cold wind winter sleet coated branches creak eerily in  wind ““ cruel wind pierces my coat freezing my tears yet I stand faithful watching your departure

  • Daily Haiku: Jan. 12, 2018

    Originally posted on Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog: senryu tobacco market the auctioneer pauses to catch his breath by Curtis Dunlap  (USA) Chasing the Sun: selected haiku from Haiku North America, 2007 ?

  • all

    Originally posted on Project words: all the magic been and gone only silence now ? ? ?

  • #Throwdown Thursday (1/11/18): my latest on .@ImageCurve.. #haibun #poetry

    Gastronomic Insomnia     Full, from dinner. Spicy beef and rice with black beans repeat. The last traces of tequila complete their work. I keep drinking water. No matter how bloated I feel. Or how sleepy. windchime rises, falls crickets chirp   first published on Image Curve, January 11, 2018 Photo by Natasha Bhogal on Unsplash   for…

  • O Captain!

    O Captain!

    Originally posted on Smell The Coffee: Living sans regret life’s blueprint is ever sure navigating tides conquering vexed thunderstorms cruising towards journeys end ©Vivian Zems Colleen’s weekly poetry challenge #66~ destination /guide synonyms dVerse poets OLN#211

  • The Renku Sessions: Invitation For Hokku

    Haiku Happenings #9: THF’s new renku session begins! Lorin Ford leads. Hat tip to Australian Haiku Society. Source: The Renku Sessions: Invitation For Hokku Welcome to The Haiku Foundation’s Seventh Renku Session. I’m Lorin Ford. Thanks to John Stevenson’s initiative of giving participants the chance of selecting the next verse after an accepted verse of our own in…

  • Today’s Haiku (January 11, 2018)

    Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 落葉踏むおとぎ話の終はる時　        青柳　飛 ochiba fumu otogibanashi no owaru toki stepping on the fallen leaves when a fairy tale ends                                                             Fay Aoyagi from “Shûkan Haiku” (“Haiku Weekly”) #508 1/15/17  Issue, http://weekly-haiku.blogspot.com

  • Awake

    Originally posted on haiku tree: 3 a.m. wide awake the cat watches me ?