Frank J. Tassone

Month: April 2019

  • haiku: little girl…

    Originally posted on Haiku For Living: . little girl looks to the sky The Moon ? ? ? ? .

  • Good Friday morning – – haiku

    Originally posted on Ontheland: Good Friday morning around the kitchen table Mom’s tray of hot cross buns . ©️2019 Ontheland

  • Little Things Noticed While Grieving

    You are so still. No rising and falling in your chest. You mouth lies wide open. Someone closed your eyes. The same tepid sunlight partially fills the room and casts shadows throughout. A glass of unfinished pepsi remains by your bedside. You are so still. But morticians styled your hair and applied your makeup. You…

  • Unsealing Our Secrets Won a Distinguished Touchstone Book Award (2019)

    Originally posted on Alexis Rotella's Blog: I was delighted when my colleague Roberta Beary emailed me to tell me the delightful news. The Touchstone Book Awards is sponsored by The Haiku Foundation under the direction of Jim Kacian, its founder. Unsealing Our Secrets is a collection of poems by women and a few men about…

  • haiku: green moss…

    Originally posted on Haiku For Living: . green moss sunlit among roots the jewelled earth ? ? ? ? .

  • ‘Haibun Triptych’ the video

    Originally posted on Stella Pierides: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHVFd5bkctQ&feature=youtu.be Originally published in the special issue “The blue collection 9: Home” of the phenomenal Blue Fifth Review, the Triptych was made into a video in honour of International Haiku Poetry Day 2019, organised by The Haiku Foundation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHVFd5bkctQ&feature=youtu.be Many thanks to Rob Ward for his help with editing the…

  • “forsythia bloom…” a #tanka (4/18/19)

    4/18/19: family heirloom forsythia bloom Mom’s faded wedding dress in a crumbling box the offer my father made that the Bride had to refuse #tanka #micropoetry #poetry #NaPoWriMo2019 / #GloPoWriMo2019

  • Breakfast Renga

    Originally posted on writing in north norfolk: early morning rain the dry sound inside the cabin of oatmeal cooking ­                                                           comfort in heat of a pot ­ …