Frank J. Tassone

Month: July 2019

  • Love Poem for a Country’s Growing Pains

    Originally posted on Tidbits by Shannon: #Haiku Happenings #1 (7/5/19): Shannon Blood’s latest #haiga! Tidbits by Shannon View original post

  • Smuggs Chronicle ’14, Day 9: August 2, 2014, Part II (my latest #ImageCurve #haibun)

    We pass quickly through the Artisan Shop. The woman late middle aged that sold us our tickets (and still wears her hair long) shows us the hand-crafted plates, cups, etc. Frankie declares himself out of the market. She offers him chocolate for $.05. snake-printed plates holding an owl-print pillow The Pleissing gallery features a re-creation…

  • Rain

    Originally posted on the other bunny: After three sub-zero mornings it is relatively mild at 4°C. I put on one too many layers for my trip to the chemist, arriving home ringing wet. Though, so long as the rain holds off I don’t mind the cold, the relative mild, or the sweat, because the rain…

  • Troiku Month (20) With the moon

    Originally posted on PHOENIX: with the moon night too disappears into the ocean © Jane Reichhold (1937-2016) with the moon the streetlamps light up one after another night too disappears when the morning star rises in the sky into the ocean a lot of starfish come to the surface Photo&Troiku : Virginia Popescu Carpe diem…

  • UNTITLED HAIBUN

    Originally posted on pictured words: Incredible image courtesy of  Lars_Nissen_Photoart, on Pixabay He asks what my hardest moments have been, pressing me to purposely reflect on a life that has been primarily appreciation-inducing.  I had parents who loved me well and modeled life; relatives who enveloped and affirmed me; friends who have laughed with me, and…

  • “Fourth of July…” a #tanka (7/4/19)

    7/4/19: the unexpected rewards Fourth of July the unexpected rewards of America an immigrant family’s hard-earned opportunity #tanka #micropoetry #poetry

  • deep summer – – tanka

    Originally posted on Ontheland: deep summer . . flowers drying as fresh ones open my pace slowing to July’s sultry pulse . . ©️2019 Ontheland

  • Same

    Originally posted on haiku tree: street musicians play the same song from last night ? ?