Frank J. Tassone

Month: March 2019

  • #Haikai Challenge #78 (3/23/19): swallow (tsubame) #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka #haiga #renga

    I trust you savored your experience of equinox, haijin! Congratulations to last week’s contributors: Haikai Challenge Participants 1. Tessa2. Dwight L. Roth3. Reena Saxena4. Jules @ Strands5. Jane Dougherty 6. Ken Gierke / rivrvlogr7. Revived Writer8. Linda Lee Lyberg9. Pat R10. Janice 11. Jim Feeney12. Xenia Tran13. Merril D. Smith14. Frank J. Tassone Powered by……

  • half and half – – haiku

    Originally posted on Ontheland: half and half – the fickle notes of early spring . . ©️2019 Ontheland

  • Table Manners

    Originally posted on Grahn Song: Words are food, some sweet and succulent, others rich and savory. Some are bland, some are juicy, and some will burn your tongue. We’re in a garden of words. We put them in a basket and then serve them on a plate. Each morsel has its place in the meal…

  • Today’s Haiku (March 23, 2019)

    Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 五線譜にアネモネの種二、三粒　　齋藤真理子 gosenfu ni anemone no tane ni, san tsubu             on the music sheet             two or three             anemone’s seeds                                                 Mariko Saito from “Haiku Shiki” (“Haiku Four Seasons,” a monthly haiku magazine), December 2017 Issue, Tokyo Shiki Shuppan, Tokyo

  • Summons Sublime: a #writephoto #haibun

    “And the forests will echo with laughter…” –Led Zepplin, Stairway to Heaven Listen to the faintest of whispers within. Feel the sense of deja vu. Come closer. Closer. This is it. The road less travelled has lead here. The culmination of the decision that “made all the difference” is at hand. Experience it to the…

  • Haibun 183

    Originally posted on Michael Rehling: leaving a shadow is all so attached to this body. but at the end of the day or the end of time we just leave the faintest trace of ourselves. todays best ideas were hatched a century ago by a farmer smoking a pipe in the field after a long…

  • Failed Haiku, Vol. 4 Issue 39 edited by Michael Rehling

    Originally posted on Il fiume scorre ancora: thrift shop a tin box filled of dreams way home into conversation with myself refugee camp in a paper handkerchief her first baby tooth peace negotiations the children’s eyes watching the stars Eufemia Griffo 

  • ‘wool into eggs’

    Originally posted on Stella Pierides: #Haiku Happenings #4: Stella Pierides’ latest #haiga! Stella Pierides View original post