Frank J. Tassone

Month: March 2018

  • A Waning Hope: A #quadrille #haibun

    Courtesy CBS News   Savanna sunset the last breath of the last male white rhino   An aging female’s egg awaits sperm preserved from the last male. A species’ fate rests in the hands of such uncertain science.   Of such waning hope.   starlight playing God to overcome playing God   for dVerse Poets…

  • #monoku Monday (3/26/18): My Daily Haiku #2

    no time for stiff upper lips lunch hour #haikuchallenge (stiff) #haiku #senryu #monoku #micropoetry #poetry

  • haiku: sunlit field…

    Originally posted on Haiku For Living: . sunlit field where green woods end the blue flower ? (dedicated to Novalis) ? ? ? ? .

  • International Women’s Haiku Festival: Two Haiku by Terri L. French

    Photo: Ken McMillan/Creative Commons/Flickr Poet Terri L. French talks middle age and damselflies in two beautiful haiku. winter solstice middle age shifts to the right As the earth and neighboring planets shuffle around the Milky Way, the seasons emerge, according to which parts of the earth are nearest to or farthest from the sun. Read…

  • Rain

    Originally posted on haiku tree: 1 a.m. the smell of rain keeps me awake ?

  • Today’s Haiku (March 26, 2018)

    Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 夕朧ひとりの時間減るばかり　　波戸岡　旭 yûoboro hitori no jikan heru bakari             evening haze             time for myself             is decreasing                                                             Akira Hatooka from “Haiku-kai” (“Haiku World,” a monthly haiku magazine), December 2016 Issue, Bungaku No Mori, Tokyo

  • Haibun: Time to be Still

    #Haibun Happenings #6: Xenia Tran’s latest #haibun for my current #haikai challenge!

  • My Daily #Haiku (3/26/18)

    3/22/18: home morning coffee another sigh at the brightening sky #haiku #senryu #micropoetry #poetry