Frank J. Tassone

Month: April 2018

  • “Call me…”

    Photo by Yianni Tzan on Unsplash   Never mind my name. Our true names have power, and why would I willingly offer anyone such power over me? This is what you can call me.   Daybreak … silence broken by songbirds   Call me Bard. Hear the verses I recite. See the sweeping plains razed by the west…

  • Today’s Haiku (April 4, 2018)

    Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): ぶらんこの背を押す海のやうに押す　　すずき巴里 buranko no se o osu umi no yô ni osu pushing a back of a swing as the sea would push it                                                 Pari Suzuki from “Haiku Shiki” (“Haiku Four Seasons,” a monthly haiku magazine) , December 2016 Issue, Tokyo Shiki Shuppan, Tokyo

  • Finding Faith

    #Haiku Happenings #9: Suzanne’s latest #haibun for #dversepoets and Colleen’s latest Poetry Challenge!

  • Daily Haiku: April 4, 2018

    Originally posted on Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog: 80th birthday almost all her potted plants still in bloom by Robert Epstein  (USA) Modern Haiku, Vol. 37:3, Autumn 2006 ?

  • another

    Originally posted on Project words: ? another year still this grief  so strong ? For Helen ? ?

  • Haiku on the Asahi Haikuist Network – march 30, 2018

    Originally posted on Vento del giorno: two years ago– the stars still less bright © A.M. ? http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201803300013.html

  • My Daily #Haiku (4/4/18)

    4/4/18: dragonfly pouring rain … not one dragonfly in sight #haiku #micropoetry #poetry #glopowrimo2018 #napowrimo2018 4/30

  • Mountain – kikôbun

    Originally posted on Adas Poetry Alcove: Carpe Diem #1403 Mountains (kikôbun) Bluegrass Parkway All along the parkway we stopped to photograph the mountains. The scenery was spectacular, but for May it was quite chilly.  This, however, did not deter the spring wildflowers that bloomed in profusion.  The changing light in the sky also added  to…