Frank J. Tassone

Month: July 2018

  • My Daily #Haiku (7/31/18)

    7/31/18: surfacing gathering clouds surfacing again that old problem #haiku #senryu #micropoetry #poetry

  • August, 2018

    Originally posted on Otata: Click on the link below to read otata 32 (August, 2018) Ξ Otata will come again one day late fall in the mountains — Santoka as translated by Burton Watson Otata mo aru hi wa kite kureru yama no aki fukaku As Watson notes, “Otata was a woman who went around…

  • summer bites

    #Haiku Happenings #2: Janice’s latest #haiku!

  • 7.31 (s) creekside, bay or ocean… /twiglet/ haikai/

    Haiku Happenings #1: Jules’ latest #tanka for my current #haikai challenge!   creekside, bay or ocean… a twig for a mast a leaf for a sail in a cicada’s eve song summer fades, vacations end becoming treasured memory ©JP/dh   via 7.31 (s) creekside, bay or ocean… /twiglet/ haikai/

  • “A Nice Game of Chess”: A #dversepoets #quadrille #haibun

      White moves King’s pawn to E4. Black answers with Queen’s knight to F6. I process combinations.  My opponent runs sub-routines.   A flurry of moves. Pawns fall, Bishops pin, Queens clash.   Until the puzzle is complete.   pale sun afternoon — victory   for dVerse Poets Quadrille #61 (pubtended by Mish)      …

  • Haibun: Ghost Cat

    Originally posted on kanzen sakura: The cat in the picture is my boy Sam Cat the Ripper.  I had to have him euthanized last October due to a huge tumor growing on his heart.  He lived a happy life.  This was his favorite place to lie in the yard.  A quadrille is a form unique…

  • Daily Haiku: July 30, 2018

    Originally posted on Project words: Delighted to appear on Daily Haiku today! rose garden another stab of envy Rachel Sutcliffe (UK) Frogpond, 38:3, Autumn 2015 https://wp.me/pX5cN-2ji

  • So What

    Originally posted on the other bunny: Newport Jazz Festival 1958. The year that accelerated jazz into a new era. The white race was catching sight at black music, and Anita O’Day, white as snow, swinging “Sweet Georgia Brown” and “Tea for Two”. Fashion was cool, simple and stylish. It was high-level art and completely irresistible.…