Frank J. Tassone

Month: June 2019

  • Agus Maulana Sunjaya’s Sunset

    Originally posted on Haiku Commentary: sunset dragging my shadow back home © Agus Maulana Sunjaya (Indonesia) Akitsu Quarterly, Fall issue, 2018 A very melancholic haiku that immediately suggests the image of a homecoming in which the shadow, particularly long in the sunset, seems to weigh down the steps of the poet. But the shadow, understood…

  • rain days – – tanka

    Originally posted on Ontheland: rain days – in the trough of a wave shrouded by mist life swells toward sunshine on the crest . . ©️2019 Ontheland

  • blue sky and trees

    Originally posted on Poems From Oostburg, Wisconsin: blue sky and treeson the birch tree branchblue jay Blue Jay is courtesy of wpclipart. Ellen Grace Olinger

  • My Daily #Haiku (6/6/19)

    6/6/19: paisley a paisley tie hidden on the tie rack— D-Day #haiku #micropoetry #poetry

  • long grass

    Originally posted on Haiku Gravy: lost in the long grass childhood summers

  • Spring Snow

    Originally posted on writing in north norfolk: spring snow everything wakes to silence in the mountains purifies earth and heaven with its whiteness this crystallised hope our enemies perish from the grip and bite of ice new shoots start to show Kim M. Russell, 6th June 2019 Henmi Takashi: Spring Snow at Jokochi- or Kamikochi…

  • ‘silk threads’ 48/100 #haikufeltings

    Originally posted on Stella Pierides: silk threads— we are in this together

  • Mourning Song: a #haibun

    The days between Dad’s death and his funeral passed with a frantic urgency. There Mom and I were, securing his plot, arranging his wake, purchasing his coffin. We held back the grief as we attended to the business of saying goodbye. I still needed to write his eulogy. Some time in the midst of all…