Frank J. Tassone

Month: July 2019

  • “Thunderstorms…” a #tanka (7/31/19)

    thunderstorms the sudden silence in the yard the exhaustion I feel

  • Today’s Haiku (July 31, 2019)

    Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 蝉たちの穴あいてゐて海が見ゆ　　高梨　章 semi tachi no ana aite ite umi ga miyu holes made by cicadas I can see the ocean                                                             Akira Takanashi from “Shûkan Haiku” (“Haiku Weekly”) #393 11/2/2014  Issue, http://weekly-haiku.blogspot.com

  • Haiku Sign Flash From The Past

    Originally posted on Miriam's Well: Poetry, Land Art, and Beyond: Almost ten years ago Axle did this charming Haiku Roadside Project from Axleart in Santa Fe. Here is mine–came upon it as a nice memory!

  • #Haiku: Summer Heat

    Originally posted on Charmed Chaos: summer heat thrumming singing in halcyon air cicadas in love Carpe Diem Haiku Kai: Summer has ended #1714 free styling

  • 7/31/19: birds floating asleep lawnmowers an interrupted dream of birds floating asleep #haiku #micropoetry #poetry

  • some ‘ku

    Originally posted on weird laburnum: behind your doors lilies combust * like totems our tendons * deep in the thicket locks without keys * fault line the other self waits * abbreviations and other various lies * casting spells the wind the wind the wind Tiffany Shaw-Diaz

  • Failed haiku, July 2019

    Originally posted on Il fiume scorre ancora: ? My three poems featured in Failed haiku, a Journal of English Senryu, Volume 4, Issue 43 edited by Michael Rehling. Grateful and honoured for this publication. 🙏 after chemotherapy in the hospital room his sweet smile (to p.) dopo la chemioterapia nella stanza d’ospedale il suo dolce…

  • Cicada Song

    Originally posted on revivedwriter: This is for Frank’s haikai challenge  this week. It really was a challenge because I knew nothing about cicadas, except that they are in a lot of Japanese anime. Google to the rescue!  Rustling in the trees Annual cicada song: Harmless rattlesnakes