Frank J. Tassone

Month: July 2018

  • A Domestic Disturbance: A #TankaTuesday (7/31/18) #2 #tanka

    Photo by Abigail Lynn on Unsplash     woodchuck burrow the ransacked vegtables in the garden it participates in grooming successors to pillage on   for Kiwinana’s #Weekly Tanka Prompt #Poetry Challenge – Week 107 – Participate & Grooming      

  • Haiga, Haiku & #30: Unsung Stories & July NaHaiWriMo 2018

    Originally posted on A 19 Planets Art Blog 2010/2024: unsung the crunch of gravel under my feet * for #30 NaHaiWriMo 7-30-2018 * Roy Kindelberger 30: Unsung *

  • Dream Puzzles: Haibun Quadrille

    Originally posted on Yesterday and today: Merril's historical musings: I dream of huge white blossoms flaming and shooting off petals into the sky, turning it dark with flowery ash. Wondrous and a bit terrifying, this puzzle of my mind. ? Moon silvers the trees, green leaves pale in midnight glow— dreams waiting to bloom…

  • Glow

    Originally posted on haiku tree: early morning street lamps glow flicker to sleep ?

  • Conflicting Silence: A #TankaTuesday (7/31/18) #TankaProse

      The sun tries to break through. The clouds that gathered will not scatter. A temperature more consistent with spring than summer holds steady. It was perfect weather to repair the paver stones on the front stoop, or write outside all morning. I did neither, becoming lost in folly on the internet.   And so…

  • Tanka Tuesday: Happy & Morose

    Originally posted on Jane Dougherty Writes: For Colleen’s Tanka Tuesday challenge, a tanka, with all the syllables. Don’t know why, but that’s how it fell out. ? contentment lies here in pools of shade pools of sun pools where stream water glitters with mirror fish scales though the sky is pewter dull

  • Today’s Haiku (July 31, 2018)

    Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 草いきれ鉄材錆びて積まれけり　　杉田久女 kusaikire tetsuzai sabite tsumare keri             a smell of summer grass             iron materials rotten             and stuck up                                                             Hisajo Sugita from “Haiku Dai-Saijiki” (“Comprehensive Haiku Saijiki”), Kadokawa Shoten, Tokyo, 2006 Fay’s Note:  Hisajo Sugita (1890-1946)

  • first bloom…

    #Haiku Happenings #4: Tia Haynes latest haiku appear in Presence!