Frank J. Tassone

Month: August 2018

  • cycle of life (Troibun)

    Originally posted on Tournesol dans un Jardin: She loves this time of year. Flowers are in bloom overflowing in gardens. Four more weeks admiring the golds, lavender and magenta before leaves start their own autumn performance. overgrown gardens hanging on until death befalls overgrown gardens boasting with beauty hanging on caterpillar on a twig transforms…

  • My Daily #Haiku (8/21/18)

    8/21/18: underground all the years since riding the Underground — singing grasshoppers #haiku #micropoetry #poetry

  • Haiku – autumn near

    #Haiku Happenings #3: Hélène Vaillant’s latest haiku for my current #haikai challenge!

  • Fall Whether (?)

    Fall Whether (?)

    Originally posted on ….Bilocalalia….: The calendar says autumn is near, but outside, palm trees shake their heads. ? Via #Haikai-challenge

  • Autumn Near

    Originally posted on revivedwriter: Frank J. Tassone’s haikai prompt for this week is aki chikashi, which means “autumn near.” Here in southern California, autumn does not feel near, so I thought it would be difficult to write this. However, yesterday I got an idea. Out to dinner with my might-as-well-be-grandparents, Grandma points out that it…

  • Pre-Smuggs Insomnia: an .@ImageCurve #haibun

      It’s a quarter to one in the morning. Cricket songs, and the ever-present drone of Thruway traffic, pass through our open bedroom windows. We’ll be on our way to Smuggler’s Notch in a few more hours. I should be asleep. My fingers caressed and massaged Mira’s back earlier in the evening. The intimacy that…

  • Haiku – #Femku

    Originally posted on Martha Magenta: ? black hole a star disappears in a bruise ? menopause I save an egg for my rebirth ? © Martha Magenta ? #FemkuMag – An e-zine of Women’s Haiku issue 3 August 2018 https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/f4c0ea_3b9b71080f75469a9d28a3a3f02ed396.pdf

  • Nature’s Love Shown

    Originally posted on awisewomansjourney: Frank J. Tassone Haikai Challenge #47 – Autumn Near (aki chikashi) Write the haikai poem of your choice (haiku, senryu, haibun, tanka, haiga, renga, etc.) that alludes to autumn near (aki chikashi). Autumn’s heart is near a new season calls to us comes a great harvest rhythm of falling leaves dance…