Frank J. Tassone

Month: March 2018

  • Andrena Zawinski: Singing Bird Haibun

    Andrena Zawinski: Singing Bird Haibun

    Originally posted on Vox Populi: “Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes,  and the grass grows by itself.” Basho . It is not a steely-eyed egret nor heft of pelican but just a singing bird that catches my fancy from a balcony perched across from pines lining the marina. Here I make watch of another shifting sky, distant…

  • Content

    Originally posted on haiku tree: 1 a.m. awake and content the cat purrs ?

  • haiku: willow fronds…

    Originally posted on Haiku For Living: . willow fronds shimmer in a light breeze ripples on the river ? ? ? ? .

  • Today’s Haiku (March 10, 2018)

    Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): はじめをりいつかの春をつづきから　　　大谷弘至 hajimeori itsuka no haru o tuzuki kara             beginning that spring             from where             it stopped                                                 Hiroshi Ohtani from ‘Haidan,’ (‘Haiku Stage’) a monthly haiku magazine, April 2016 Issue, Honami Shoten, Tokyo

  • Tia Haynes’ Hands

    Originally posted on Haiku Commentary: support group I never know where to put my hands © Tia Haynes (USA) Failed Haiku, Vol. 2, Issue 20, 2017 This senryu has a significant breadth of meaning. On one hand, it brings about a feeling of mystery, where one does not know where the narrator’s hands will go.…

  • #Haikai Challenge #24 (3/10/18): Snow (Yuki) #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka #haiga #renga

    Courtesy of ABC News, March 7, 2018   Were you blown away, haijin? I know I was! Congrats to last week’s contributors:   Haikai Challenge Participants  1. Jules 2. Jane Dougherty 3. Vivian Zems 4. Reena Saxena 5. Jules 2 6. Janice (Ontheland) 7. Jane Dougherty (2) 8. Xenia Tran 9. Linda Lee Lyberg 10.…

  • Daily Haiku: March 10, 2018

    Originally posted on Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog: senryu “Motorcycle for Sale” the clink of the spoon in the baby’s bowl by Steve Hodge (USA) Prune Juice, Issue 12, July 2015 ?

  • outside the noodle shop

    outside the noodle shop

    Originally posted on 日本文化の愛 Nipponbunka no ai: 陽炎やそば屋が前の箸の山 ? kagerō ya sobaya ga mae no hashi no yama In the heat-haze Before the noodle shop lies A mountain of chopsticks -Kobayashi Issa ? Art by Tokuriki Tomikichiro ?