Frank J. Tassone

Month: June 2019

  • Summertime and a Spiderweb

    Originally posted on revivedwriter: The first haiku is in response to Heeding Haiku, which is about spiderwebs, and the haibun is for Frank’s fragrant breeze prompt.  Strong intricacy: Potential, patterned beauty In a spider’s home There was a two- or three-day heat wave, when even the breeze, warm as it was, brought little relief. It still…

  • morning garden

    Originally posted on Poems From Oostburg, Wisconsin: morning gardenshadows of lilacson the chair Ellen Grace Olinger

  • Tanka: Memories

    #Haiku Happenings #4: Xenia Tran’s latest #tanka!

  • My Daily #Haiku (6/13/19)

    6/13/19: shelf gray sky a favorite book falls off the shelf #haiku #micropoetry #poetry

  • 163.

    Originally posted on Haiku 2019: where the pig bit ya like a gutted koala vertical smile

  • first news

    Originally posted on Shore/lines: This poem is dedicated to my friend, Nick Diggins, who died earlier this year. first news of a friend’s death blackthorn blossom (hedgerow #127)

  • Tanka

    Originally posted on Vento del giorno: Maria Kreyn tuoni e fulmini la notte s’infittisce sulle spalle la tua leggerezza perdutamente persa thunders and lightnings – the night thickens on my shoulders desperately lost your lightness © A.M.

  • Crossing the Bridge: a #TankaProse

    Dawn and the threshold awaits that crossing all the preparation and still the fear The bridge awaits. The River, so placid today, indifferently reflects the rising arc of the joined stones. I shudder before the threshold. The bystanders at my back stand their ground. This is my journey, to commence with my first step upon…