Frank J. Tassone

Month: June 2019

  • Midsummer Rain

    Originally posted on revivedwriter: A haiku for Frank’s challenge Thick humidity Solidifies into clouds — Bringing welcome rain

  • A Corridor Evermore: a #writephoto #haibun (for #dVersePoets and #PoetsUnited, too)

    Door upon door upon door. An unceasing progression to everywhere, and nowhere. And yet each glimpse off the everlasting corridor reveals a moment… Flash! I am eight or nine. The maple and elm tower over the dirt trail that leads from the playground in Douglas Park. Dappled light though the canopy illuminates patches of the…

  • Wren, a Haibun

    Wren, a Haibun

    #Haiku Happenings #9: Sascha Darlington’s latest #haibun for #dversepoets! Sascha Darlington's Microcosm Explored “Wren” was written for dVerse. Image by Naturelady from Pixabay  It’s nearing darkness at 8 pm, my wren, yet I don’t see you pecking at a peanut on the railing or chirping your plaintive call or, really, see you at all. How have I not…

  • Ancient Blue

    Originally posted on William Michaelian: Year by year, the neighbor’s irises have crept like a floral glacier across the narrow path I maintain between his yard and our garden. This spring, they were so heavy with blooms, I had to prop them up to keep them from smothering our young tomato plants. It was a…

  • early morning

    Originally posted on Poems From Oostburg, Wisconsin: early morningand readingmany writerseach time I lookthe sky has changed July 2014 This summer I am rereading books by Luci Shaw, along with a few poetry journals. Here and there I look at memoirs from thrift stores. Always the Psalms – a place of stability and hope for…

  • “heatwave…” a #tanka (6/28/19)

    6/28/19: new adventure heatwave as the long-awaited sun continues shining a new adventure awaits as red rock country calls #tanka #micropoetry #poetry

  • Aimless

    Originally posted on haiku tree: fireflies aimless stars in the grass ?

  • Today’s Haiku (June 28, 2019)

    Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): たちまちに影遅れ出す蜥蜴かな　　森　優希乃 tachimachi ni kage okuredasu tokage kana immediately its shadow begins to fall behind… a lizard                                                             Yukino Mori from “Shûkan Haiku” (“Haiku Weekly”) #508, 1/15/17 Issue, http://weekly-haiku.blogspot.com