Frank J. Tassone

Month: June 2019

  • My Daily #Haiku (6/21/19)

    6/21/19: pebble solstice prick of a pebble in my shoe #haiku #micropoetry #poetry

  • 1724

    Originally posted on feathers: ? ? watermelon moon —even the dog’s snorewanes ? ?

  • drugs

    Originally posted on Haiku Gravy: in the shade beneath the willow tree a junkie asleep

  • Midsummer Nights

    Originally posted on revivedwriter: For the haiku prompts for both Frank J. Tassone’s and Heeding Haiku’s prompts about midsummer and the summer solstice. Summery zenith: Nighttime over more quickly Dreaming short and sweet

  • A Traveler’s Wisdom: a #quatrain #haibun

    twilight above the horizon strawberry moon I come bearing counsel. Will you hear it? Aye, I’m a traveler, a stranger to you, and a woman, besides. No matter. You can have confidence in what I will tell you. Will you listen? aflight across the leagues, I see happenings near and far to guide your steps…

  • Today’s Haiku (June 20, 2019)

    Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 夜の色斑にのこる天牛　　山田佳乃 yoru no iro madara ni nokoru kamikirimushi  night color left in spots on its body a long-horn beetle                                     Kano Yamada from ‘Haidan,’ (‘Haiku Stage’) a monthly haiku magazine, September 2017 Issue, Honami Shoten, Tokyo ?

  • Originally posted on weird laburnum: the singing white eyes of this bird silent snow forty little words leaping on a green ant a black cross stretching the river in your change pawprints deep in the forest you swallow lilies tremble the wake of the pond children dying treesI religiously swallow the bright sea homesick we…

  • After the Rain

    Originally posted on Adas Poetry Alcove: Carpe Diem #1683 Troiku Month (12) White Valley CloudsAfter after the rain breathing deeply white valley clouds © Jane Reichhold (Taken from: “A Dictionary of Haiku”) after the rain heat of the earth rising to my fingertips breathing deeply damp earth mingled with jasmine ancient memories white valley clouds…