Frank J. Tassone

Month: April 2018

  • earth – a haibun

    Originally posted on petrujviljoen: So small, so old and not as round as we’d like to think, nearing the used up date at a frightening speed as it hurls itself around the blistering sun; itself in decline. This ending – by the hand of man (it’s a fact). Yes, earth is dying by the hand…

  • Coyote monologues Narcissus: a #TankaProse

      Don’t look at me like that! Geesh! The first time you tear your eyes away from that pond in forever, and it’s to give me an attitude?   Look, I’m a culture hero. I pulled a Prometheus, and stole fire from the sun for humanity. I practically raised the Crow myself, and I even…

  • Unauthorized Break

    #Haiku Happenings #9: Sophia Dinola’s first #haibun!

  • The Tough Terrain

    Originally posted on Hephaestus’ Waste & Cosmic Rubble: Image source: urban.org The Tough Terrain The path beyond my garden was once concrete, cinderblock, brick, asphalt, and dirt fields that were once meant to be green. On those dirt fields, we played a game called “Kill the Man”, where one kid would try to run with the…

  • s p l i n t e r

    s p l i n t e r

    Originally posted on l’amour libère: She fell into the spine, between the pages 80 and 81. Never before, she thought, had words reached into her, beneath tissue and through sinew, to touch her bones. She grasped at the strings, over and over, sliding across sentences, from the bottom of one page to the…

  • #Haikai Challenge #30 (4/21/18): Earth… #Haiku #Senryu #Haibun #Tanka #Haiga #Renga

    No sooner did we celebrate warmth than another cold spell enveloped the Northeast! Nevertheless, Haijin, you bore witness to the inevitable turn toward spring (at least in the northern hemisphere). Congratulations to last week’s contributors:   Haikai Challenge Participants  1. Ken Gierke / rivrvlogr 2. lynn__ 3. Dwight L. Roth 4. Jules 5. Jane Dougherty…

  • Pond at dusk

    Originally posted on Bill Waters ~~ Haiku: pond at dusk — frogs and blackbirds in conversation Published in the Asahi Shimbun‘s Asahi Haikuist Network section (http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201804200004.html), 4/20/18, and featured at My Haiku Pond (https://twitter.com/MyHaikuPond/status/987335572409765888) for 4/20/18. *    *    *    * ?

  • Haibun – Tarheel

    Originally posted on kanzen sakura: Day 20 of Nano. Sherry is giving the prompt for today at Real Toads. My favorite prompt yet. It is based on the free verse poetry of Al Purdy, poet laureate of Canada. She has gifted us his wonderful poem, Say the Names. It is a true gift. The saying…