Frank J. Tassone

Month: June 2018

  • pressed flower…

    #Haiku Happenings #9: Tia Haynes’ latest haiku premiers in Frogpond!

  • Daily Haiku: June 7, 2018

    Originally posted on Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog: on the mend . . . this long afternoon stitched by swallows by Marion Clarke  (Northern Ireland) tinywords, Issue 17.1, May 31, 2017 ?

  • as peony nods

    Originally posted on rivrvlogr: as peony nods bowing my head in respect heavy with sorrow This senryū is my response to Frank Tassone’s #Haikai Challenge #36: Peony. Image source: wikimedia.org (Peonies, by Yun Shouping, 1633-1690)

  • Praesentia via Negativa: A #TankaProse

    Photo by Aron Visuals on Unsplash     Declining sun evening robin songs as leaves flutter what merit our anguish when our stake remains lost?   Not in the consuming lava that leaves hundreds homeless in its unpitying wake. Not in the tremors and aftershocks that follow the earthquake. Not in the bluster of egos that seek proof…

  • Tanka # 146

    Originally posted on Rooted in Love: In this life and the next your breath and mine woven into a single nest ~ For gift she offered me her back, a page on which to ink the flowers of poetry.

  • The Haiku Foundation, HaikuLife Film Festival 2018

    #Haiku Happenings #5: Debbie Strange’s video #haiga for THF’s HaikuLife Film Festival 2018! These haiga videos are comprised of previously published poems (with recitation) to celebrate International Haiku Poetry Day, an initiative of The Haiku Foundation, held April 17, 2018.     Watercoloured Words   https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bzkOv-1-SYwA&feature=youtu.be Limned https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6Dr6IqEVjA       a ragged curl of…

  • Peonies and roses

    #Haiku Happenings #4: Janice’s latest haiku for my current #haikai challenge!

  • My Daily #Haiku (6/7/18)

    6/7/18: phone fresh peonies — our time spent staring at our phones #haiku #micropoetry #poetry