Frank J. Tassone

Month: September 2018

  • Quick Paradigm Shifts

    Quickly, quickly, ever so quickly! Speeds up to 60 MPH. An entire jump in 20 seconds. I, still and rooted atop the Ski Jump, have a new, profound respect for them! But I will not follow them, thank you! echoes of miracles Lake Placid for dVerse Poets Pub– Quadrille #64 — Quick! Write Something (pubtended…

  • Tanka: Soft Landing

    #Haiku Happenings #6: Xenia Tran’s latest #tanka!

  • Sweet Inventions from Chaos Comes

    Originally posted on Yesterday and today: Merril's historical musings: Monday Morning Musings: “Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos,” –Mary Shelley, introduction to Frankenstein (1831) “We should not be held back from pursuing our full talents, from contributing what we could contribute to the…

  • My Daily #Haiku (9/10/18)

    9/10/18: subtle Lake Placid the subtle degrees of rain #haiku #micropoetry #poetry

  • Autumn Wind Talking

    Originally posted on thoughts and entanglements: The morning wears the humidity like a cloak. Through still air, the cries of the hawk from the tree canopy. He seizes the opportunity to buzz the red tailed squirrels, bringing to a halt there morning romp. The morning gaggle of geese wander through like they own the place.…

  • (s) haikai #50 prayerful prelude (solo renga – series) | Jules Longer Strands of Gems

    #Haiku Happenings #2: Jules’ latest solo #renga for my current #haikai challenge! prayerful prelude almost autumn wind brings more rain, announcing time; another new year reflecting on what has been to move gracefully forward seeking tenets and tents; singly or folded in a congregation breath of sacred wind blown through the holy shofar – ram’s…

  • Digging Up Bones

    Originally posted on Roth Poetry: We woke this morning to rain and autumn winds whipping the trees. By lunchtime the rain had moved out for a brief recess. A friend of ours took me and my two brothers down by the river to what was once a coal patch of houses on the hill side.…

  • #SilentSunday 9/9/18

    A rest from #haiku See you tomorrow!