Frank J. Tassone

Month: August 2018

  • Close Encounter: #TBT .@ImageCurve #haibun

      Mom said something. “Ok,” I answered, stepping out of the kitchen and into the living room. Then one more step toward the door.   CRASH!   Shards of shattered glass rained down on the couch, coffee table, and carpet—one step away from me. A Chevy Blazer’s back end hung through our obliterated living room…

  • Daily Haiku: Aug. 30, 2018

    Originally posted on Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog: senryu     formal dinner . . . reflected in the cutlery my sagging chin   by Michael Fessler (Japan), Author arrangements

  • Today’s Haiku (August 30, 2018)

    Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 海は夏こころ遠くへ置くことも　　和田順子 umi wa natsu kokoro tôku e oku koto mo             the sea in the summer             sometimes I put my soul             far away                                                 Junko Wada from ‘Haidan,’ (‘Haiku Stage’) a monthly haiku magazine, July 2017  Issue, Honami Shoten, Tokyo

  • Haibun: A Voice from the Unseen

    #Haiku Happenings #4: Xenia’s latest #haibun!

  • My Daily #Haiku (8/30/18)

    8/30/18: kind “a scout is kind” so often ignored … social media #haiku #senryu #micropoetry #poetry

  • Mare Tranquillitatis’ “free climbing…”

    #Haiku Happenings #3: Eva Limbach’s latest haiku appears in THF’s A Sense of Place!   free climbing the well-known scent of loneliness via Mare Tranquillitatis

  • Homeless

    Originally posted on Ontheland: In wealthy nations such as Canada homelessness has been with us for quite a while. It is an invisible problem to many but not to those on 10-year waiting lists for an affordable apartment or room. How did we get here? We still trust that a market economy will do what…

  • sweetness of honey

    Originally posted on rivrvlogr: sweetness of honey From the time my eight-year-old daughter was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation has been a resource and source of inspiration for my family. Offering education about blood glucose management and group events that bring together children and young adults who do not have…