Frank J. Tassone

Month: September 2018

  • Haiga, Haiku & #19: Evening Quiet Stories & September NaHaiWriMo 2018

    Originally posted on A 19 Planets Art Blog 2010/2024: * evening quiet beneath the avocado tree shadows soften * for #16 NaHaiWriMo 9-19-2018 * Prompt by Jessica Malone Latham September 20: Evening quiet *

  • Oedipal Complex

    Attic cup: Oedipus and the Sphinx Oedipus and the Sphinx, interior of an Attic red-figured kylix (cup or drinking vessel), c. 470 BCE; in the Gregorian Etruscan Museum, the Vatican Museums, Rome. Album/Oronoz/SuperStock     How did you miss the signs, Oedipus? You, for whom the riddle of the Sphinx held no fear?   How did you overlook the evidence that…

  • Jules’ (s 9.19) Imprompt/ MLMM Hh/ Fun With Science a haibun | Jules Longer Strands of Gems

    #Haiku Happenings #6: Jules’ latest #haibun! Fun With Science Gather the rain in a bucket You might offer it to the pigs Let some of those sky tears dry We’ll experiment with what remains Teacher says get a magnet Look and see what’s gotten pulled Anything stuck at the poles? Those specks and grains are…

  • Almost

    Originally posted on haiku tree: drifting off to sleep I almost forgot to kiss you

  • Today’s Haiku (September 19, 2018)

    Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 夕霧に邯鄲のやむ山の草　　　飯田蛇笏 yûgiri ni kantan no yamu yama no kusa             evening fog             tree crickets stop singing             under mountain grass                                                             Dakotsu Iida from “Haiku Dai-Saijiki” (“Comprehensive Haiku Saijiki”), Kadokawa Shoten, Tokyo, 2006 Fay’s Note:  Dakotsu Iida (1885-1962)

  • My Daily #Haiku (9/19/18)

    9/19/18: Wild Aster Michaelmas dawn deer gazing in a field of wild asters #haiku #micropoetry #poetry

  • on the highway

    Originally posted on Ontheland: Yesterday I was driving on the 401 to and from Toronto—it was no picnic, in sweltering heat and hours of bumper to bumper traffic crawling next to lines of towering trucks. There were pleasant moments—beyond nibbling buns from a Chinese bakery. Squirrels were everywhere at the downtown park…one boldly snacked in…

  • A Sense of Place: MEADOW/FIELD – sight

    Originally posted on Project words: Delighted to appear in A Sense of Place again today open fields so much we don’t see Rachel Sutcliffe https://www.thehaikufoundation.org/2018/09/19/a-sense-of-place-meadow-field-sight/