Frank J. Tassone

Month: April 2018

  • Take a walk

      Mira and I walk at Kakiat Park. The rain-swollen Mahwah River cascades under the bridge. It foams the rocky bank where a lone fisherman fishes. We turn onto the blue trail toward the tributary feeding the river. Or is it the river? The cold ground doesn’t mud our shoes like last time. We’re not…

  • Today’s Haiku (April 30, 2018)

    Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 落ちかけて日のとどまりし蕨かな　　藤田湘子 ochikakete hi no  todomarishi warabi kana             the sun starts to sink             and stops…             a bracken                                                 Shoshi Fujita from “Haiku Dai-Saijiki” (“Comprehensive Haiku Saijiki”), Kadokawa Shoten, Tokyo, 2006 Fay’s Note: Shoshi Fujita (1926-2005)   ‘warabi’ (bracken) is a spring kigo.

  • Haiku: Highland Breeze

    #Haiku Happenings #8: Xenia Tran’s latest haiku for my current #haikai challenge!

  • weather erratic

    Originally posted on rivrvlogr: weather erratic white narcissus late to fall cold nights lingering cherry blossoms still not here hoping for colorful spring This tanka is in response to Frank Tassone’s #Haikai Challenge #31: Osozakura – Late Cherry Blossom Image source: pixabay.com National/Global Poetry Writing Month ~ Day 30

  • My Daily #Haiku #2 (4/30/18)

    writer’s workshop the redundant essays of bored Juniors #haikuchallenge (redundant) #senryu #micropoetry #poetry #GloPoWriMo2018 #NaPoWriMo2018

  • ‘Fragments’ in Ephemerae, 26/100, #100daysnewthings

    Originally posted on Stella Pierides: Fragments . In Ephemerae vol. 1, A, 2018 26/100 #The100DayProject #100daysnewthings

  • The shadows of birds

    Originally posted on Bill Waters ~~ Haiku: all around the sleeping cat the shadows of birds fluttering Published in Acorn: A Journal of Contemporary Haiku, spring 2018. *    *    *    *

  • Revised Haiku

    Originally posted on Jane Dougherty Writes: It’s procrastination Monday, so here are a few haiku for Carpe Diem’s revise a haiku spot. The haiku are by Sōen Nakagawa. I have revised them and ended with a haiku tying them both together. one note of the shakuhachi resounds endlessly piercing the winter clouds © Soen Nakagawa…