Frank J. Tassone

Month: April 2018

  • My Daily #Haiku (4/30/18)

    4/30/18: lush after dawn lush avian wildlife in the backyard #haiku #micropoetry #poetry #GloPoWriMo2018 #NaPoWriMo2018 30/30

  • Fragment

    #Haiku Happenings #3: Barbara Kaufman’s #haibun appears in Bards Annual 2017!

  • Born

    Originally posted on Roth Poetry: Star Wars Day //May 4th Day that I was born at home War over // I cried No fireworks //no booming guns Mom smiled as family gathered **************************************************************** Our Hiakia challenge from Frank Tassone is to write a Haiku or one of the forms to write a poem from three…

  • #Haikai Challenge 31 – May the 4th

    Originally posted on Hosking's Blog: Ancient Jedi tomes possess no further wisdom Luke seeks horizon Yoda confesses Page turners they were not, as he burns ancient texts ? As I’m looking through my reader, the theme of Frank’s next Haikai challenge catches my eye, how can I pass up a May the Fourth challenge.…

  • Recrossing the Water: a conversation with Sylvia Plath

    “It is better to light a candle then curse the darkness.” —Chinese proverb     I understand, Sylvia. If we’re honest with ourselves, we’ll recognize the blackness within. How it envelops us like a night sky at Mohican Center, far from firelight, where the crunch of gravel under our steps is our only evidence of…

  • Originally posted on Australian Haiku Society: bending nasturtiums form a green-grub walkway to the mint M L Grace A lovely moment in the garden, so full of life and everything so green: nasturtiums, green-grub and mint. Any gardener will know that these munching grubs can be a nuisance at times, yet in the grander scheme…

  • Earthrise Rolling Haiku Collaboration 2018

    Originally posted on Martha Magenta: ? river kingfisher a splash of blue in the cloud — Martha Magenta, 71st Basho Memorial English Haiku Contest, 2017 * robin’s egg on the ground fractured sky — Martha Magenta, Akitsu Quarterly Fall 2017 * summer solstice the sky bursts into sparrows — Martha Magenta Better than Starbucks, I.2,…

  • Tanka: Late cherry blossom

    Originally posted on Jane Dougherty Writes: First thoughts for Frank Tassone’s Haikai challenge. ? so much green across the sky—black boughs clad white blossom hid sun lingers longer now than this blossom than you