Frank J. Tassone

Month: April 2018

  • My Daily #Haiku (4/3/18)

    4/3/18: empty her yellow tulips listening to an empty bell #haiku #micropoetry #poetry #NaPoWriMo 3/30 #GloMoWriMo2018

  • Haiku del giorno – Daily haiku

    Originally posted on Vento del giorno: Vincent van Gogh ? oltre la siepe – quando la primavera profuma il cielo beyond the edge – when the spring scents the sky © A.M. ?

  • fallen cherry blossoms

    fallen cherry blossoms

    Originally posted on 日本文化の愛 Nipponbunka no ai: 花ちりて木間の寺と成にけり hana chirite ko no ma no tera to narinikeri With the flowers fallen All evergreen has this temple Become. -Yosa Buson ? Art by Tatsumi Shimura

  • Revise that haiku

    Originally posted on Ontheland: In response to Carpe Diem Weekend Meditation #26 Revise that Haiku Taneda Santoka, known for ‘free verse haiku’, was part of an early-twentieth century trend in Japan that explored free-form haiku composed without traditions such as the 5-7-5 syllabic rule and the seasonal word. In his later years Santoka became a…

  • Haiga, Haiku & #3: Empty Stories & April NaHaiWriMo 2018

    Originally posted on A 19 Planets Art Blog 2010/2024: * empty road to the horizon still full of sky * empty doorway over the mountain pass i enter another world * for Prompt #3 NaHaiWriMo 4-3-2018 * Lynne Jambor April 3 EMPTY *

  • Haibun: Every Faith

    #Haiku Happenings #2: Xenia Tran’s latest #haibun for #dversepoets!

  • brilliant azalea

    Originally posted on rivrvlogr: brilliant azalea calling out with its color reminder of home Frank Tassone’s #Haikai Challenge #27: Azalea (In Chinese culture, the azalea is known as “thinking of home bush”) Image source: wikimedia.org (edited here) National/Global Poetry Writing Month ~ Day 3

  • #Publication Alert: Hoeing Grief appears in Cattails!

    Pleased that my haibun Hoeing Grief appears in Cattails, April 2018!   Hoeing Grief   By Frank J. Tassone, USA   Dad places Robert on one part of our terrace garden and me, on the other. This way we can’t accidentally hurt each other. Robert rakes while I tear at the ground with a hoe.…