Frank J. Tassone

Month: January 2019

  • Holiday Epilogue (Redux): an .@ImageCurve #haibun

    Oil cracks on the frying pan in the kitchen. Dice in a boggle bubble rattle. I just can’t stopplays on the black-and-blue mini radio Frankie got for Christmas. Aroma of frying breadcrumbs permeates the living room. Anticipation and dread for tomorrow slowly strangle me. It’s that time. January night— Preparing the last rich meal Of the…

  • Raven Cry

    #Haiku Happenings #9: Helene’s latest haiku for my current #haikai challenge!

  • Echoes

    Originally posted on Yesterday and today: Merril's historical musings: Vincent van Gogh, “Wheatfield with Crows,” [Public Domain] Wikipedia Commons ? crow calls, beckoning, rosy-robed sun arises, new day awakens with murdered conversation, echoes in black-winged flutter ? I’m still waiting for the sun to rise. This tanka is for Frank’s Hakai challenge (crow) and Colleen’s…

  • Tanka: First crow

    Originally posted on Jane Dougherty Writes: A tanka for Frank Tassone’s haikai challenge. ? white fields hoarfrost-crisp beneath a wan winter sun waiting for release black against so much whiteness crow—its call echoes darkly ?

  • 1/7/19: prompt-free red sky morning as cold in the office as outside another throat-clearing cough to start off the work day #tanka #micropoetry #poetry

  • Ravenously yours

    Ravenously yours

    #Haiku Happenings #6: Reena’s latest #tanka for my current #haikai challenge!

  • O1062019 haiku

    Originally posted on kanzen sakura: For Frank’s Haikai Challenge #68 silent neighborhood – distant crows break the silence – cold and still today

  • The end of the road

    #Haiku Happenings #4: Suzanne’s latest #haibun for my current #haikai challenge!