Frank J. Tassone

Month: May 2019

  • Chestnut

    Originally posted on writing in north norfolk: autumn moonlight– a worm digs silently into the chestnut                                      Basho (Tr. Jane Reichhold) soon both will fall from the tree brief life on a small planet         …

  • haiku: coursing grass…

    Originally posted on Haiku For Living: . coursing grass on windswept plots vague town-lands ? ? ? ? .

  • The Vanity of Our Theorizing

    I read Robert Pirsig’s Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. I shuddered when Phaedrus articulated his theory of “quality,” only to experience a breakdown when he realizes that he simply rediscovered Laoxi’s insight–codified in the Tao Te Ching some 500 years before the birth of Christ: The way you can go isn’t the real…

  • Haibun: Parallels

    #Haiku Happenings #9: Xenia Tran’s latest #haibun!

  • ‘waiting’ 31/100 #haikufeltings

    Originally posted on Stella Pierides: waiting for his felted bear … the house cat

  • #Haiku: Trees Newly Green

    Originally posted on Charmed Chaos: fresh growth on bare limbs life bursts forth from dormancy brilliant green of spring Frank J. Tassone’s Haikai Challenge #84

  • “Still watching…” a #tanka (5/7/19)

    5/7/19: child at heart still watching Marvel action movies drawing the line at conventions, cosplay and multiple theater viewings #tanka #micropoetry #poetry

  • Senryu

    Originally posted on Bending moments: ? Failed Haiku, Vol 4, Issue 3 ?