Frank J. Tassone

Month: May 2018

  • Originally posted on Puget Lines and Edges: #Haiku Happenings #1 (5/31/18): Dave Kuhlmann’s latest #haiga! Puget Lines and Edges View original post

  • Tanka # 142

    Originally posted on Rooted in Love: I always sit with the shadow of you, something impalpable yet somehow bigger than the earth and sky.

  • Rebirth

    #Haku Happenings #11: Tia Haynes’ latest #haibun appears in Haibun Today!

  • Haiku Windows: ticket wicket

    Originally posted on Bending moments: movie ticket counter he checks my seniors card for the discount  ? ? ? ? Source: Haiku Windows: ticket wicket

  • Humble Truths: a #TankaTuesday (on a Wednesday) #TankaProse

        fluttering leaves in a cool afternoon breeze a neighbor’s drumming such a happy fantasia of how things could have been   The truth is a six-mile-plus hike along the Doodletown Bridal Path in Bear Mountain State Park on Memorial Day–the same day as my late father’s birthday. The truth is the slow opening…

  • 3 pieces

    Originally posted on the other bunny: Blackout Two, tonight. white pills the snow falls in me . Cut & Paste Every once in a while, I forget I’m steering the ship that is my body. into nothingness the clouds the clouds . Nocturne Yet again, the arms of insomnia hold me awake. darkness but only…

  • watching the moon

    Originally posted on a meditative journey : Watching the moon at dawn, solitary, mid-day, I knew myself completely, no part left out. ~Izumi Shikibu (J Hirshfield & M Aratani, The Ink Dark Moon)

  • Today’s Haiku (May 30, 2018)

    Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): サングラスかけて港に用もなく　　杉原裕之 sangurasu kakete minato ni yô mo naku             wearing sunglasses             at the port             with nothing special to do Hiroyuki Sugihara from “Haiku Shiki” (“Haiku Four Seasons,” a monthly haiku magazine), June 2016 Issue, Tokyo Shiki Shuppan, Tokyo