Frank J. Tassone

Month: April 2018

  • For the Hunt: A Predator’s #Haibun

    Five means to meet my prey: Sight. Not my finest sense, but few match my eyes in the pitch black of a nightime jungle canopy. The slightest trace of light is all I need to make out my quarry. In spite of their vain efforts at camaflage! Hearing. The faintest crack of a distant twig.…

  • haiku: village of stone…

    Originally posted on Haiku For Living: . village of stone the old pond lies still empty skies ? ? ? ? .

  • hidden marsh

    Originally posted on Ontheland: hidden marsh beyond the silver trees a chorus of frogs ~ in leafless spring a flag lights the wilderness shining birch ~ ©2018 Ontheland Walking down the road I heard a chorus of frogs from an unexpected location (shown in the photo). Carpe Diem Spring Retreat 2018: light of the world.

  • Today’s Haiku (April 26, 2018)

    Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 自転して空が産まれて春の潮　　　吉野秀彦 jiten shite sora ga umarete haru no shio             rotating on its axis             and the sky is born…             spring tide                                                 Hidehiko Yoshino from ‘Mame No Ki,’ (‘Pea Tree’), May 2017 Issue, Tokyo

  • #ThrowbackThursday (4/26/18): my latest .@ImageCurve #haibun

    Relaxing into Another Weekend     Mira hands me a full glass of Chianti. “Happy Friday!” We clank glasses as we toast. I take my first sip. Dark wood taste explodes on my tongue. I lie back on the chaise and open Merton. Smooth jazz plays again on that best of Christmas gifts: a Motorola…

  • #Publication Alert (4/26/18): my latest in THF’s EarthRise Rolling Haiku Collaboration 2018

    Happy to appear in The Haiku Foundation’s EarthRise Rolling Haiku Collaboration 2018! breaking dawn a robin sings harmony with the wind chime (P.37) Thank you, Jim Kacian, and the editorial team at The Haiku Foundation!

  • Haiku Windows edited by kjmunro: train/subway window is up!

    Originally posted on Il fiume scorre ancora: cold morning I draw a snowflake on the subway window Eufemia Griffo https://www.thehaikufoundation.org/2018/04/25/haiku-windows-train-subway-window/

  • Haiku: Sea Waves

    #Haiku Happenings #5: Xenia Tran’s latest haiku!