Frank J. Tassone

Month: April 2018

  • first blossoms

    Originally posted on a poem in my pocket: Join Frank Tassone‘s haiku challenge… ? cherry trees will bud float like soft pink petal clouds hatsu hana spring

  • Release

    Release

    Originally posted on Haiku out of Africa: finding dragonflies ~ chasing our dreams together ~ then letting them go — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

  • My Daily #Haiku (4/14/18)

    4/14/18: persimmon dawn birdsongs a burnt tongue after a sip of persimmon tea #haiku #micropoetry #poetry #glopowrimo2018 #napowrimo2018

  • haiku: winter grey…

    Originally posted on Haiku For Living: . winter grey a pigeon blunders in matted twigs ? ? ? ? .

  • Bamboo Hut

    Originally posted on Project words: Delighted to appear in the new issue of Bamboo Hut today ! ? funeral home my hand on hers one last time ? a bare bulb above the unmade bed this silence ? origami class I fold up my tension ? pavement puddles the toddler meets his upside down self…

  • Haiku windows, edited by kjmunroe, is open! (Outhouse window).

    Originally posted on Il fiume scorre ancora: ? outhouse window cherry blossom rain over the roof ~ Eufemia Griffo https://www.thehaikufoundation.org/2018/04/11/haiku-windows-outhouse-window/

  • A Haikai Ars Poetica

      The tai chi windchime’s melody plays without ceasing. Spindly, naked branches atop towering locus trees sway. Grasshoppers chirp in a choral counterpoint to the bass drone of the Friday evening rush-hour. Shrivelled, potted daffidils bathe in the late afternoon sun. A hawk soars in a tight circle high above the tallest Locus. The warmest…

  • First Cherry Blossoms

    Originally posted on revivedwriter: For Frank J. Tassone’s latest haikai challenge. This one was difficult for me. We waited for spring. February was too cold. Love was not coming. But look! Pink as sun’s first rays, Cherry trees in bloom, hope stays.