Frank J. Tassone

Month: March 2019

  • Enlightenment: a #writephoto #haibun

    Get up. Step out from the shadows. Did I pierce the veil to address an undergrowth bathed in shade? Come, and bear witness to the light! You thought you were abandoned, left “alone and naked in the wilderness.” You shuddered to think as the darkness crept in. You stole glimpses of declining daylight from the…

  • #Haikai Challenge #79 (3/30/19): twittering (saezuri) #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka #haiga #renga

    It’s great to see how many of you enjoyed the swallow, haijin! Congratulations to last week’s contributors: Haikai Challenge Participants 1. Ken Gierke / rivrvlogr2. Dwight L. Roth3. Tessa4. Jane Dougherty5. Reena Saxena 6. The Dark Netizen7. Xenia Tran8. Janice9. Jules @ fiction10. Xenia Tran (2) 11. Helene Vaillant12. ennle madresan13. Revived Writer14. Jim Feeney…

  • Tanka by Chen-ou Liu in Canada (2)

    Originally posted on Akita International Haiku Network: On October 30, 2010, Tanka by Chen-ou Liu in Canada (1) was updated on the website below. https://akitahaiku.com/2010/10/30/ On December 23, 2018, Chen-ou Liu presented tanka, haiku, and senryu with his short bio and his recent photo, wishing us all the best in the coming year. Here is…

  • Today’s Haiku (March 30, 2019)

    Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 白鳥の引きし茂吉の山河かな　　　片山由美子 hakuchô no hikishi mokichi no sanga kana             swans returned north             these mountains and rivers             of Mokichi’s land                                                 Yumiko Katayama from “Haiku Dai-Saijiki” (“Comprehensive Haiku Saijiki”), Kadokawa Shoten, Tokyo, 2006 Fay’s Note:  Mokichi Saito (1882-1953) is one of the prominent tanka…

  • Family Values

    Originally posted on Martha Magenta: ? “Since then I’ve always thought that under rape in the dictionary it should tell the truth. It is not just forcible intercourse; rape means to inhabit and destroy everything.” Alice Sebold – ‘Lucky’ ? His-story is a global disease that feeds on privacy. Coercion conspires to secrecy in collective…

  • counting

    Originally posted on Project words: ? counting cracks in the flagstones warm sun ?

  • Tanka

    Originally posted on Bending moments: father’s satchel with my old poems fireplace crackles as I leaf through the pages lost in the summer of my youth ? (Ribbons winter 2019, Volume 15, Number1)

  • Haiga 110

    Originally posted on Michael Rehling: #Haiku Happenings #4: Michael Rehling’s #Haiga #110! Michael Rehling View original post