Frank J. Tassone

Month: May 2018

  • haiku: bas-relief…

    Originally posted on Haiku For Living: . bas-relief carvings in worn stone shadows ? ? ? ? .

  • #Glo/NaPoWriMo2018: A retrospective

      What an incredible journey #Glo/NaPoWriMo2018 has been! I intended to write thirty poems in thirty days. Man, did I fulfill my intention!   380 posts 30 haiku in thirty days 30+ poems (haibun, tankaprose) in thirty days 8 poems published (four haibun in Image Curve, one in Cattails, one in failed haiku, and two…

  • Vive La Geekdom!

      The Friday night audience at the Lafayette filled the one-screen, National Historic Landmark theater nearly to capacity! We cheered when the curtain opened. We applauded when our favorite Avengers arrived on-screen. We laughed at every gagline, gasped at every surprise, and cried in shock and disbelief as some of our favorites… (sniff! sniff!)…  …

  • Haibun 111

    Originally posted on Michael Rehling: a flock of wah wahs lifes been good. and now after a hard and long winter i see my first butterfly. the geese are overhead and the turkey vultures are circling. squirrels are scattering under the deck to stay out of the coopers hawks sight lines. spring just cant slow…

  • Today’s Haiku (May 1, 2018)

    Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 春の鴨歩いて水に入りけり　　菅野孝男 haru no kamo aruite mizu ni hainikeri             spring goose             it walks             to enter the water                                                 Takao Sugano from “Haiku Shiki” (“Haiku Four Seasons,” a monthly haiku magazine) , December 2017 Issue, Tokyo Shiki Shuppan, Tokyo

  • Dave Read’s “more bruise…”

    #Haiku Happenings #7: Dave Read’s haiku appears in Wild Plum! more bruise than banana autumn deepens Wild Plum Fall 2017

  • My Daily #Haiku #2 (5/1/18)

    Bronx zoo a snub nose monkey grooms her young #haikuchallenge (snub) #haiku #micropoetry #poetry

  • Otata 29, May 2018

    Originally posted on Vento del giorno: Delighted to appear in Otata again  with three haiku of mine. Thanks John Martone! https://otatablog.files.wordpress.com/2018/04/otata-may-2018.pdf ? Quiet lake – clouds sails on the water *** foggy station – a man holding a red rose *** flying in the wind the seagull’s cry – suddenly april ? ? ? ?