Frank J. Tassone

Month: May 2018

  • Ono no Komachi

    Originally posted on a meditative journey : While watching  the long rains falling on this world my heart, too, fades with the unseen color of the spring flowers. ~Ono no Komachi (J Hirshfield & M Aratani, The Ink Dark Moon)

  • The Untold Tale of a Staircase: a #writephoto #haibun

      Who would descend such a staircase? A Quincenara introduced to high society? A bride approaching her groom? Or an matronly host of an elite inn catering only to the jet-setting crowd? Morning light bathes the steps through east-facing windows, and a breeze rustles the translucent curtains. So just what occasion would occur on such…

  • Today’s Haiku (May 5, 2018)

    Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 蜆貝うらがへりつつ風に飛ぶ　　高橋千草 shijimigai uragaeritsutsu kaze ni tobu             being overturned             a shijimi shell flies             in the wind                                                 Chigusa Takahashi from ‘Haidan,’ (‘Haiku Stage’) a monthly haiku magazine, June 2017 Issue, Honami Shoten, Tokyo

  • Haiku

    Originally posted on Bending moments: speck of a plane soon the clouds cover the hum HSA 2017 Members’ Anthology

  • The Dawn Chorus, Tanka

    Originally posted on Yesterday and today: Merril's historical musings: Laud the dawn chorus– robin, cardinal, and wren trill night into day light streaming golden and pink as cherry blossoms in spring ? By Awesok [CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)%5D, from Wikimedia Commons ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? This tanka is for Colleen’s…

  • My Daily #Haiku (5/5/18)

    5/5/18: sense crabapple blossom so many years since seeing “Smilla’s Sense of Snow” #haiku #micropoetry #poetry

  • Originally posted on Puget Lines and Edges: #Haiku Happenings #3: Dave Kuhlmann’s latest #haiga! Puget Lines and Edges View original post

  • Daily Haiku: May 5, 2018

    Originally posted on Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog: senryu comfort television I don’t move the vase for the orange asters by Karen Hoy  (UK) Multiverses 1.1, 2012 ?