Frank J. Tassone

Month: April 2020

  • Windy woods

    Originally posted on Bill Waters ~~ Haiku: windy woods — the clack and squeak of branches *    *    *    *

  • trust in the universe ~ Haibun ~ April 15/20

    Originally posted on Tournesol dans un Jardin: Three hours of sleep reads her Fitbit. Hmmm, that’s odd, and yet she feels refreshed this morning. She runs a bath and prepares her coffee at the same time. She seems to have energy today despite the lack of sleep. She strips her bed and prepares for laundry…

  • Haibun: Lilies

    #Haiku Happenings #1 (4/15/20): Mosshawk’s latest #haibun for my current #Haikai challenge!

  • Publication Alert! (4/15/20)

    I happy to have the following haiku appear in the Haiku Foundation’s Haiku Dialogue today! Thank you, Tia Haynes! Congratulations, haijin!

  • The Inspirations of Mentors: a #NaPoWriMo2020 / #GloPoWriMo2020 #haibun

    I call three poets my mentors: three women, three masters, three exemplars of the art A head bowed in awe Constance Coiner introduced me to Carolyn Forche. The poet was one of the modern American women writers we studied in Professor Coiner’s course of the same name. Forche’s The Country Between Us was the work…

  • Taps

    Originally posted on haiku tree: a few taps quiet thunder morning rain ?

  • Today’s Haiku (April 14, 2020)

    Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 夢の淵春の虹生む象の川　　　宇陀草子 yume no fuchi haru no niji umu zô no kawa             abyss of a dream             the elephant river gives birth             to a spring rainbow                                                             Soshi Uda from ‘Haidan,’ (‘Haiku Stage’) a monthly haiku magazine, June 2017 Issue, Honami Shoten, Tokyo

  • Tanka on Tuesday 4.14

    Originally posted on whimsy~mimsy: after the cold winds a blanket of onion snow blue skies overhead robin on a budding branch cocks his head curiously