Frank J. Tassone

Month: March 2019

  • Haibun: Shifting Sands

    #Haiku Happenings #8: Xenia Tran’s latest #haibun!

  • #Haiku: Whitebait

    Originally posted on Charmed Chaos: early spring trolling white baiting in cold rivers feast of tiny fish Frank Tassone Hakai Challenge # 76

  • “Daylight savings time…” a #tanka (3/12/19)

    3/12/19: Intrepid Daylight savings time Missing a chance to see the Intrepid No out-of-town relatives until the next wedding #tanka #micropoetry #poetry

  • Golden Triangle Haiku, Spring 2019

    Originally posted on My Inner Voice: ? my poem is included on a sign and displayed in Washington D.C. for this March and April, 2019 as a part of the Golden Triangle haiku initiative, 2019.

  • whitebait – – haibun

    Originally posted on Ontheland: This week, for the Haikai Challenge, Frank Tassone presents ‘whitebait’, a traditional Japanese spring ‘kigo’ (haiku season word). As well, Frank reminds us that we are in the Christian season of Lent, a period of reflection and restraint in which eating fish sometimes plays a role. Christian symbols and practices are…

  • Haibun 176

    Originally posted on Michael Rehling: open letter to basho hey. just asking for everyone i guess but what is a haiku. you seemed to know but i was three hundred years late to your party in the north country. i hate the whole time travel ban you know. i want to ask you if so…

  • My Daily #Haiku (3/12/19)

    3/12/19: grog mutiny the ship’s quartermaster runs out of rum #haiku #senryu #micropoetry #poetry

  • Haibun quadrille

    Originally posted on Jane Dougherty Writes: A haibun quadrille for the dverse prompt. And more dandelions. Blue spikes of muscari fade, violets wilt. Dandelions crowd the meadow with their yellow sun-faces. Clover pink and purple vetch will follow then poppy red at the fields’ edge. The wheel revolves, blue returns in the over-arching winter sky.…