Frank J. Tassone

Month: April 2020

  • Untitled response to 2020 April PAD Prompt: the last blank

    Originally posted on pictured words: ? Pixabay image credit: https://pixabay.com/users/alexandra_koch-621802/ We wouldn’t suspect the last time we visited could be our last time. © Marie Elena Good, 2020 #covidnineteen #seventeenintwenty I had kind of promised myself I would not get morbid during this PAD challenge. But here I am. I’ll try to write another poem…

  • Tanka: Precious Places

    Tanka: Precious Places

    #Haiku Happenings #4: Xenia Trans’ latest #tanka!

  • My Daily #Haiku (4/16/20)

    4/16/20: pocket soaring hawk —“Poem in your Pocket” dayin only two weeks #haiku #micropoetry #poetry #NaPoWriMo2020 #GloPoWriMo2020 #pocketpoem

  • Debbie Strange’s Warp and Weft ~ Images and Words: Our Best Haiga: Black & White Haiga/Haisha, March 2020

    #Haiku Happenings #3: Debbie Strange’s latest #haiga and #haisha! https://debbiemstrange.blogspot.com/2020/04/our-best-haiga-black-white-haigahaisha.html

  • International Haiku Poetry Day – Haiku String

    International Haiku Poetry Day – Haiku String

    Originally posted on Australian Haiku Society: Today, 17th April 2020, we are celebrating International Haiku Poetry Day by holding a String on the theme of ‘Solitude’. By sharing our haiku we can connect with each other, even in these days of social distancing, self-isolation and working and studying from home. So that international poets may…

  • Lilies are not only white

    Originally posted on revivedwriter: This haibun is written in response to Frank J. Tassone’s prompt about Easter lilies. Easter is celebrated for 8 days on the Catholic liturgical calendar, and the Easter season lasts for several more weeks. I am grateful for each of my friends, especially for those who have stayed in contact with…

  • Coronal Folly: A #NaPoWriMo2020 / #GloPoWriMo2020 #haibun

    It’s midway through the fourth week of Remote Learning. If we were still in our school, we would be off for Spring vacation. But in these pandemic times, a break is not an option. Therefore, we faculty came up with the next best thing: four grade-level projects that each incorporate the four core subjects of…

  • Fluidity on “My Favorite Things” –a #reprise #haibun

    First bars: da-da da, da da da: piano play. Steamer on an expresso machine superheats a caramel macchiato in the making. Or a cork on a bottle of California Burgundy pops open. Jazz-rhythm drums, catching the downbeat and bridging the intro, until the soul-satisfying melody line of John Coltrane’s saxophone strikes–“My Favorite Things,” Like that…