Frank J. Tassone

Month: July 2019

  • Ephemeral Eternities: a #TankaProse

    How an aroma of a scarlet petal contains the rapture of joy. How a single prick of thorn holds the agony of pain. How fleeting, even when cared for. How enduring in memory, when gone. How Shakespeare denigrates it through Juliet’s “What’s in a name…” How Stephen King mystifies it as an icon of the…

  • Goldenrod

    Originally posted on Poems From Oostburg, Wisconsin: growing oldergoldenrod and rosesrefreshed by rain Photo by Karl – August 2010 August 2015 August 2017 Ellen Grace Olinger

  • Warp and Weft ~ Images and Words: Presence, Number 64, July 2019

    #Haiku Happenings #5: Debbie Strange’s haiku and #tanka appear in Presence! heat miragethe balked landingof a waterhen souvenirs . . .the memories I thoughtshe’d forgotten scented driftsof cottonwood fluffline every street . . .he might not make itthrough the winter I was delighted to discover that the following haiku was shortlisted for the Best-of Issue…

  • Moondoggie

    Originally posted on Daniel J Flosi is Consumed: Walking the dog, down the same sidewalk we take every night, back home. Down the side street that forms a T with the main street that we walk along a grey Chrysler, windows tinted, rolls, slowly, up to the intersection about ten yards too far back and…

  • My Daily #Haiku (7/30/19)

    7/30/19: Winter Chrysanthemums geese flight … preparing to winter Chrysanthemums #haiku #micropoetry #poetry

  • Daily Haiku: July 30, 2019

    Originally posted on Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog: tendrils of fog I follow a thread back into the dream by Annette Makino (USA) Frogpond, 40:1, Winter 2017

  • Sandip Chauhan’s Moonbow

    Originally posted on Haiku Commentary: moonbow . . . in a grain of wheat a farmer’s song © Sandip Chauhan (USA) 2nd Place, 2014 International Matsuo Basho Award for Haiku Poetry This haiku starts with subtle feelings. The writer takes us to the world where serenity tickles all the elements of nature. Watching a moonbow…

  • Haiku del giorno – Daily haiku

    Originally posted on Vento del giorno: Kiyokata Kaburagi between sunset and dinner the joy  of remembering you tra cena e tramonto la gioia di ancora ricordarti © A.M.