Frank J. Tassone

Month: January 2019

  • Daily Haiku: Jan. 3, 2019

    Originally posted on Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog: lest we forget the words unspoken since last year by Beverley George  (Australia), Author Spinifex

  • hard

    Originally posted on Project words: ? ? hard frost I shiver in your silence ? ?

  • Pictoral haiku in Otata

    Pictoral haiku in Otata

    Originally posted on Anna Maris: A number of my wingdings haiku have been published in the first issue of Otata this year. The idea of writing haiku without the obstruction of language is a way of expressing very basic images in symbols which can be understood in the same way as language. I have previously…

  • Tanka # 175

    Originally posted on Rooted in Love: كهمس الأوراق خيال وجهها وهو يمرّ بين حروف القصيدة، تاركاً، في سماءهاخيوط فجرٍ أبيض كالماء ~ To write her namein the form of a poemand feel in it movingall the swirling eddiesin the oceans of the world ~ Her dark haira rain of fireflooded across my bellyand moving insatiablyto…

  • Red Leaves

    #Haiku Happenings #8: Barbara Kaufmann’s #senryu appears in Prune Juice!

  • Today’s Haiku (January 2, 2019)

    Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): この道を行けば海なる初入日　　池田澄子 kono michi o yukeba umi naru hatsuirihi if I take this way I will reach the sea New Year’s sunset                                                 Sumiko Ikeda from ‘Haidan,’ (‘Haiku Stage’) a monthly haiku magazine, January 2016  ssue, Honami Shoten, Tokyo

  • “cold dawn…” a #tanka (1/2/19)

    1/2/19: prompt-free cold dawn the sound of scraping from the car’s front end just back from one shop to end up in another #tanka #micropoetry #poetry

  • O’Dark

    Originally posted on Heed not Steve: off to work – all in our cars we drive that way —- © Steve Mitchell 2019