Frank J. Tassone

Month: January 2019

  • haiku: white berries…

    Originally posted on Haiku For Living: . white berries on the spindly bush open gate ? ? ? ? .

  • A Forgotten Sentry

    Deep emerald maple leaves blossom on my neighbor’s tree. The trunk—in shadow—looks almost black. It casts little shade over the aging, clubhouse-swing set that my neighbor worked so hard to erect. The one no one has played on in so long. empty backyardleaves flutter in a passingsummer breeze Photo by Yonan Farah first published in Image…

  • Haiga 81

    Originally posted on Michael Rehling: #Haiku Happenings #9: Michael Rehling’s #haiga #81! Michael Rehling View original post

  • Haiku # 624

    Originally posted on Rooted in Love: Moments lost in time…their echoes endurein mountain poetry

  • Equality

    #Haiku Happenings #7: Reena Saxena’s latest haiku for my current #haikai challenge!

  • “Jeckyll and Hyde…” a #tanka (1/24/19)

    1/24/19: prompt-free Jeckyll and Hyde form ten to fifty-five degrees in four days this chronic coughing while proctoring Regents exams #tanka #micropoetry #poetry

  • Haiku – Stardust

    Originally posted on Martha Magenta: ? moon gazing . . . a face that never changes ? Stardust Haiku, Issue 25, January 2019 https://drive.google.com/file/d/15mwQC5J3K04ZSx2M7Zo5EOkTUoGvZcyJ/view?fbclid=IwAR3SXRotxMogU_oH3yiwoo9BsvivjTaLW5yyi4aMyf-JlX6vjxoxZl3FE_c

  • Today’s Haiku (January 24, 2019)

    Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 裸木となる太陽と話すため　　高野ムツオ hadakagi to naru taiyô to hanasu tame             I become a bare tree             to talk             to the sun                                                 Mutsuo Takano from “Haiku Shiki” (“Haiku Four Seasons,” a monthly haiku magazine), December 2017 Issue, Tokyo Shiki Shuppan, Tokyo Fay’s Note:   Since the…