Frank J. Tassone

Month: October 2018

  • Tanka: Parallels

    #Haiku Happenings #1 (10/31/18): Xenia Tran’s latest #tanka for my current #haikai challenge!

  • Once Upon a Halloween Horror: a #TankaTuesday #TankaProse

      “Once upon a midnight dreary…” but that’s been said before. What of the heart of darkness that envelops long before the first hour of All Saint’s Day? What of the thinning of the veil between life and death? What of the terrifying encounter that follows?   Once upon a horror, as crimson-lit Jack-O’Lanterns cast…

  • Passing

    My father died of Pancreatic cancer on December 14, 2011. I first published this haibun in Image Curve, on December 18, 2014. What better haibun on transition could I include for dVerse Haibun Monday– transition? I’m also linking this to Real Toads’ Tuesday Platform (imagined by Willow Switches Pat) The mid-afternoon sun rests along the…

  • A Halloween Adventure #haibun #tanka

    Originally posted on Trent's World (the Blog): A Halloween Adventure The night is quiet, still.  Nothing is stirring.  We creep forward.  I let out a nervous giggle, and you shush me, all serious.  I pull myself up, trying to look dignified, though the butterflies fight in my stomach.  You give me strength, but is…

  • Haibun: February Rain

    Originally posted on Charmed Chaos: On the night it happened, we were living apart; he in the home we once shared and I in a little bungalow not far away. Separated after almost 7 years of marriage. For ten months, he begged me to come home and I refused. I asked him to see someone,…

  • Today’s Haiku (October 30, 2018)

    Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 夕顔の実の垂れてをり湖の宿　　　森　澄雄 yûgao no mi no tareteori umi no yado white flowered gourds hanging… the inn by the lake                                                             Sumio Mori from “Haiku Dai-Saijiki” (“Comprehensive Haiku Saijiki”), Kadokawa Shoten, Tokyo, 2006 Fay’s Note:  Sumio Mori (1919-2010)

  • My Daily #Haiku (10/30/18)

    10/30/18: cackle witch’s cackle screams of children fleeing a haunted house #haiku #senryu #micropoetry #poetry #halloween

  • Daily Haiku: Oct. 30, 2018

    Originally posted on Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog: old stone bridge whether I cross it or not       by David G. Lanoue  (USA) bits of itself The Haiku Society of America Membership Anthology, 2002