Frank J. Tassone

Month: April 2020

  • My Daily #Haiku (4/30/20)

    4/30/20: haijin’s choice (eagle) spring raina bald eagle stealsfrom an osprey #haiku #micropoetry #poetry #NaPoWriMo2020 #GloPoWriMo2020

  • One-line-haiku (2015)

    Originally posted on WHITE SKIES: what’s left of us a factory of broken glass figurines . Kali’s thousand heads they never once mention my name . standing where the tribe becomes an ocean astray . false gods just as real as this doorless meadow . in her tightly closed hand a room withour dawns .…

  • Peaceful

    Originally posted on C.B. Wentworth: orange blossoms mix with lavender a peaceful sky ? *** Photo: Arizona sunset, c.b.w. 2020 Words: haiku, c.b.w. 2020 ?

  • neck

    Originally posted on Haiku Gravy: last year’s reeds a swan drinking

  • #Publication Alert: a Premier in the Inaugural edition of Drifting Sands Haibun

    I’m happy to announce that one of my Haibun, “The Renewal of an Apocalyptic Affair,” has been published in the first edition of the new Haibun Journal, Drifting Sands Haibun! Thank you, Richard Grahn and Cyndi Lloyd!

  • Total Second-to-lasts: a #NaPoWriMo2020 / #GloPoWriMo2020 #TankaProse

    Graduation day precedes final report card pick-up. The “Last Dance” at Senior Prom precedes some final melody. A roll of thunder follows a lightening strike–before the last flash of the storm. A parry during a fencing match lands before the ultimate riposte. How these penultimates eclipse the end! dogs, fish, lizards, mice … that heartbreaking…

  • My New Book Featured on Eufemia Griffo’s Blog

    Originally posted on Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog: Dear Readers and Followers, I am so pleased and honored to have news about my new book, Ripples of Air: Poems of Healing featured in both Italian and English by prolific writer and poet Eufemia Griffo. Many thanks to Eufemia for her interest in my book!…

  • Today’s Haiku (April 29, 2020)

    Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): スイートピーやさしい言葉つまらなく　　高橋桃衣 suiitopii yasashii kotoba trumaranaku             sweet pea             I find the kind words             are boring                                                 Toi Takahashi from “Haboku” (Sumi-e Ink), haiku collection of Toi Takahashi, Kadokawa Shoten, Tokyo, 2013