Frank J. Tassone

Month: August 2018

  • Tending wildfires: A #haibun

      “What if …?”   And the catasrophizing begins. The breaks fail. The school finds out I’m a fraud. The well of inspiration dries. The missles launch as the last potable water evaporates. Or the inevitable destiny to live ’til I die in a box on skid row arrives. O, how the anxious mind creates…

  • 10th Yamadera Basho Memorial Museum English Haiku Contest

    Originally posted on Martha Magenta: ? shimmering lake a swan in and out of the moon ? birdbath a thousand rainbows in the morning sun ? © Martha Magenta ? 10th Yamadera Basho Memorial Museum English Haiku Contest Selected Haiku Submissions Collection http://samidare.jp/basho/box/10th%20yamadera%20bash_%20memorial%20museum%20english%20haiku%20contest%20submissions%20collection%20pdf.pdf

  • A Sense of Place: MOUNTAIN – smell

    #Haiku Happenings #8: THF’s A Sense of Place: MOUNTAIN — smell!   A Sense of Place:  MOUNTAIN – smell inhaling all that blue washing over me Altai mountains Celestine Nudanu The reader of this poem may sense the feeling of being overwhelmed by the immensity of nature – of being overcome by it, at least…

  • Sense of Place – Smell

    Originally posted on petrujviljoen: Thrilled The Haiku Foundation published my haiku: groundswell on the mountain – petrichor Following are the others I submitted: spring greening mountain slopes scent of life rounding the mountain leaving the trodden hikers’ trail – wafts of weeping sage Breaths of early mountain; earthed heaven accommodating spirit nostrils flare with the…

  • “Sweltering Heat…”: A #tanka (8/29/18)

          sweltering heat the doctor-ordered tai chi still undone the lure of a verdant lawn I continue to ignore      

  • family album…

    #Haiku Happenings #6: Tia Haynes’ haiku appears in Stardust!

  • Daily Haiku: Aug. 29, 2018

    Originally posted on Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog: rainbow flash a kingfisher swoops on its prey by Kohana (Marta Chocilowska), Poland Asahi Haikuist Network, March 20, 2015 ?

  • Prevailed Love

    Originally posted on awisewomansjourney: Frank J. Tassone Haikai Challenge #48 – Causes This week, think of a cause. It could be anything. Write your haikai poem (haiku, senryu, haibun, tanka, haiga, renga, etc.) referencing or alluding to that cause. a cause for others instead of cause for oneself love has prevailed Photo Credit:  Pinterest