Frank J. Tassone

Month: March 2018

  • The Awakening

    Originally posted on writing in north norfolk: in the fading night your face was laden with dreams fluttering eyelids the rise and fall of your chest and our curious kisses Kim M. Russell, 2018 Sleeping Beauty – image found on Wikipedia My response to Carpe Diem #1400 The Awakening, a love poem by Rumi In…

  • Holy Thursday

    Originally posted on revivedwriter: For Frank J. Tassone’s very apt challenge to write haikai poetry alluding to the Triduum. I will probably write again about this tomorrow and on Saturday. I shall wash your feet, Taking off all dirt caked on, Come to Me in need.

  • #Haiku: Transformation

    Originally posted on Charmed Chaos: from flesh and blood man to the savior of mankind the Lord has risen ©2018 Linda Lee Lyberg Frank J Tassone Haikai Challenge #26 Triduum

  • #Throwdown Thursday (3/29/18): my latest #haibun “A Montebello School Commencement” is up on .@ImageCurve

    A Montebello School Commencement     Frankie and I are home. He’ll soon put on a light-green, button-down collared shirt, a pair of Khakis and dockers. We’ll drop him off at the middle school and take our seats in the auditorium. For his promotion ceremony. I blinked, and my son turned eleven and graduated elementary…

  • tanka: so the men have come…

    Originally posted on Haiku For Living: . so the men have come with their sacks of darkness to this sainted place on the green where children played their deathly spores fester ? (Note: of course, this poem refers to the recent atrocious nerve-agent attack in Salisbury, UK, my home.; “sainted” refers to the twelfth century…

  • Susan Marie LaVallée’s Power Outage

    Originally posted on Haiku Commentary: power outage: everything goes out but the wind chimes © Susan Marie LaVallée (1950 – 2011) (USA) (HSA Newsletter, Volume 27, Number 1 — March 2012) This is a fine example of focus within haiku. Often, haiku allow the reader to zero in on a specific sense or observation. When…

  • International Women’s Haiku Festival: Haiku by Michelle Hyatt

    Photo: Chris Isherwood/Creative Commons/Flickr Demons inner and outer haunt a haiku by Canadian poet Michelle Hyatt. so much makeup hiding her face dark side of the moon Is this a poem about a woman so desperate for beauty that she goes overboard trying to paint it on, or about a woman who is hiding evidence…

  • Spring

    Originally posted on haiku tree: fresh air sweeps the house first day of spring ?