Frank J. Tassone

Month: February 2020

  • #Haikai Challenge #128 (2/29/20): east wind (kochi) #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka #haiga #renga

    Enjoying the changes, haijin? Congratulations to last week’s contributors: Haikai Challenge Participants 1. Ken Gierke / rivrvlogr2. Jennifer Bates3. Peter4. Jane Dougherty5. Xenia Tran 6. Eugenia7. Deborah8. Pat R9. Dwight L. Roth10. Janice 11. Shaun Jex12. Jade Li/Lisa13. Emily Karn14. Rhen Laird15. Linda Lee Lyberg Powered by… Mister Linky’s Magical Widgets. Looking ahead: “…To the…

  • Daily Haiku: Feb. 29, 2020

    Originally posted on Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog: daylight fading the distant bleating of a sheep   by Olivier Schopfer (Switzerland) bottle rockets, #42, 2020

  • Basho

    Originally posted on The Lotus: Whenever I think of Old Basho I think of his continuous effort to upgrade the Haiku in his time and his final concept of “lightness”. I think of the duality which underpins his writing that is sacred to spiritual theory of his circle and which is fundamental to production and…

  • NaHaiWriMo 2020: week 4

    Originally posted on Bill Waters ~~ Haiku: Rome . . . breezing around backstreets on a Vespa [2/22 prompt = motorcycles or scooters] even my favorite food doesn’t tempt me . . . gray day [2/23 prompt = your favorite food] green light! caught in the intersection one black shoe [2/24 prompt = shoes] a…

  • Another “Not Yet” (9/11/14): my latest .@ImageCurve #haibun

    Two middle-aged women arrive from RPRC. After a brief conversation at our kitchen table, which they record, they take EMF readings throughout the house. After they finish, they say that they can’t get the specific readings that they look for, because the electrical wiring and system emits too much unshielded energy. The solution to the…

  • David Oates (U.S.A.)

    Originally posted on Harusame: first love the sun strikes a dusting of snow Comment: just as love warms the poet’s heart, so the sunlight (hi 日) in line 2 hits the snow (yuki 雪), favoring different suggestions in the reader’s mind. First love (hatsukoi 初恋) is usually selfless and unconditional; it provides us a valuable…

  • Haiku del giorno – Daily haiku

    Originally posted on Vento del giorno: Spring Blossom and Lonely Street by Chin H Shin  ? solo io e me primavera di carta alla finestra just me and me paper spring at the window © A.M.

  • Mare Tranquillitatis’ “I never imagined…”

    #Haiku Happenings #4: Eva Limbach’s latest #senryu appears in Prune Juice! I never imagined missing you so badly … rusty snow shovel Mare Tranquillitatis