Frank J. Tassone

Month: May 2019

  • Smuggs ’14 Chronicle, Day 6: July 30, 2014

    She serves from half-court. I return forearm. She backhands it over the net. I race into position and pivot, delivering the best backhand of our volley. Did she return it? Did I? Getting water later, I say, “We’ve progressed from terrible to rotten.” Tennis court bathed in sunlight slapping sounds We return from the country…

  • 呉昭新の俳句：Haiku by Chiau-Shin NGO in Taiwan

    Originally posted on Akita International Haiku Network: On April 3, 2019, Mr. Chiau-Shin NGO, a Facebook friend of mine, kindly contributed his haiku to Akita International Haiku Network with his photo and his brief bio. ? ? 俳句歴： ? 1930生まれ。 本名：呉　昭新 (Chiau-Shin NGO)；　 俳号：呉　瞈望; 日本語：おーぼー真悟； ? 2008年（78歳）に初めて句会入会と作句。 主宰が体調を壊していたゆえ、また小生自身の聴力障害のためほとんど自我流で作句，定型、自由律、有季、無季、花鳥諷詠、日常生活、論理、政治、諺、倫理などまた川柳に近い俳柳などすべてを吟詠しております。作句の言語は日本語、華語、台湾語、英語の四つの言語を使っております。定型俳句は日本の575定型に対応して漢語の343定型で詠んでいます。2016に退会し自分でネット句会を立ち上げる一方、ネット上の日本の俳句会にも投句をしております。俳句電子書（自製で粗雑ですが）をこの二年で7冊出版しております、無料でダウンロード出来ます、コンピューターでダウンロードして下さい，サイズが大きいので携帯では無理です。 現在，自分創設で管理しているネット句会は四グループ（世界のすべての言語を受け付けております）、入り口サイトは http://olddoc.tmu.edu.tw/global-haiku/index-h.html と http://olddoc.net/global-haiku/index-H.html の他にWorld Union of…

  • Daily Haiku: May 3, 2019

    Originally posted on Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog: senryu small town too much of her dream in the diner by Peter Newton (USA) Frogpond, Vol. 35, No. 3, 2012

  • Last Hurrah

    Originally posted on thoughts and entanglements: a cloud of blossoms a gentle flurry – homage to last hurrah Pat R 5/03/19 For Frank Tassone’s Haiku Challenge: Blossom Haze ?

  • “growing leaves…” a #tanka (5/3/19)

    5/3/19: caterpillar growing leaves a feeding caterpillar ready to shed another spring awaiting my own metamorphosis #tanka #micropoetry #poetry

  • Two Poems From My Archives

    Originally posted on Haiku Art Site: shoveling . . .scent of mintthrough snow This haiku was selected for the 25th Anniversary Volume,?Time Of Singing, in 1998. ice floatingin rose-colored watersome daysfeeling oldsome young a Lake Michigan poem Ellen Grace OlingerJanuary 20181,000 Posts Review

  • Healy

    #Haiku Happenings #5: Violet Lentz’s latest #haibun #tankaprose for my current #haikai challenge!

  • Today’s Haiku (May 3, 2019)

    Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 死なざれば終らぬあそび春灯　　中田水光 shinazareba owaranu asobi harutomoshi             the only way to end a play             is a death…             spring light                                                 Suikoh Nakada from “Haiku-kai” (“Haiku World,” a monthly haiku magazine), February 2017 Issue, Bungaku No Mori, Tokyo