Frank J. Tassone

Month: January 2019

  • Today’s Haiku (January 25, 2019)

    Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 神宿る木々もありたる樹氷かな　　　茨木和生 kami yadoru kigi mo aritaru jyuhyô kana             there are trees             where gods dwell…             frost-covered trees                                                 Kazuo Ibaraki from “Haiku Shiki” (“Haiku Four Seasons,” a monthly haiku magazine), December 2017 Issue, Tokyo Shiki Shuppan, Tokyo

  • The Perils of Letting Go: a #tankaprose

    1/25/19: Gerry Muse #140–Letting go The perils of “letting go” “Everything I ever let go had claw marks on it.” I had heard it said in the rooms many times by many people. When I was in therapy for a time, it described well my own conflicts with detachment. I told my therapist. Never imagining…

  • “Creative Intentions,” #Haibun #Tanka

    #Haiku Happenings #6: Colleen Cheesebro’s latest #tankaprose for her own current weekly #tanka #poetry challenge!

  • Storm

    Originally posted on writing in north norfolk: a threatening sky we wait for a rattling wind wrapped in silent snow Kim M. Russell, 25th January 2019 Image found on Pinterest My response to Carpe Diem #1592 Storm Today we have a modern kigo from Jane’s Dictionary of Haiku: storm. We also have some examples of…

  • wind

    Originally posted on Project words: ? wind through the trees the ocean in my heart ?

  • My Daily #Haiku (1/25/19)

    1/25/19: gray morning disbelief at the news of her death (for Rachel Sutcliffe. Rest In Peace, Haijin!) #haiku #micropoetry #poetry

  • Two haiku, one poem

    Originally posted on Vento del giorno: Geisha at the window – By Endre Komaromi-Kacz (Hungarian Artist, 1880–1969) ? vicino il buio …. guardo dalla finestra segnali d’ombra lama di vento questo tuo silenzio frantuma stelle Vicino il buio Guardo dalla finestra segnali d’ombra Lama di vento questo tuo silenzio frantuma stelle The dark near I…

  • Every Night

    #Haiku Happenings #2: Barbara Kaufmann’s #haiga appears in Failed Haiku!