Frank J. Tassone

Month: March 2020

  • A September Insomnial Evening: my latest .@ImageCurve #haibun

    Another sip of hot, honey-sweetened chamomile tea. More clock ticks, and the hum of the refrigerator. Soft light from the new stainless-steel ceiling fan illuminates both the walls’ yellow eggshell finish and the golden brown of our “Grandma’s” table. If not for the hour, this could be morning. But it’s not morning: it’s half-past eleven…

  • Keep calm and read a haiku…(9)

    Originally posted on WHITE SKIES: quarantine moon a long hard rain fills the old wheel tracks .

  • Daily Haiku: March 22, 2020

    Originally posted on Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog: Atlantic sunrise my great-grandfather’s third language by Mary Stevens (USA) Modern Haiku, 50.2. 2019

  • wet feet between daffodils

    Originally posted on weird laburnum: fugue in concretethe violets nobody planted a birds whistle PERFECTfinding a golden coin in mud self-isolationcat’s best birthday ever complex cloud patternssomeone’s new languagedrifts high above wooden terracethe stupid goldfish jumpsout of his glass again covid-19 or notthe birch has bornnew petals the spring-like smileof an empty park bench Isabella…

  • #Haikai Challenge #131 (3/22/20): first [cherry] blossoms* (hatsu hana) #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka #haiga #renga

    A somber Spring so far, haijin, but I hope you’re making the best of it! Congratulations to last week’s contributors: Haikai Challenge Participants 1. Li/Lisa2. Reena Saxena3. Sankara Jayanth4. Xenia Tran5. Jane Dougherty6. Eugenia 7. Peter8. Pat R9. Jen Goldie10. Revived Writer11. Rhen Laird12. Xenia Tran (2) 13. Linda Lee Lyberg14. Janice15. Frank J. Tassone16.…

  • Five Haiku: Spring Firsts

    Originally posted on Magical Mystical Teacher: 1 Spring’s first bitterness— the church on top of the hill is consumed by fire. ? 2 First small joy of spring— at the bike store a young boy gets a bargain price. ? 3 First Sunday of spring— a worn, but polished, church bell rings out loud and…

  • Project Masters of Japanese Prints: Haiku

    Originally posted on Vento del giorno: Proud and delighted that my haiku, inspired by a print from the exbition “Masters of Japanese Prints” of the Bristol Museum and Art Gallery, was chosen to accompany the woodblock print by Kitagawa Utamaro in the section “Life in the City”. Haiku afternoon lightness in a cup of tea…

  • gogyohka for spring confinement

    Originally posted on Jane Dougherty Writes: I took a lot of photos yesterday but the light was too strong and the colours came out lurid. Internet is beginning to get flaky here, erratic and extremely slow so I can’t upload the pictures anyway. This one will have to do for now, colours toned down to…