Frank J. Tassone

Month: April 2020

  • Ears

    Originally posted on haiku tree: jackrabbit ears poke through the brush desert trail ?

  • My Daily #Haiku (4/10/20)

    4/10/20: shovel Good Fridaya shovel left behindin the garden #haiku #micropoetry #poetry #NaPoWriMo2020 #GloPoWriMo2020 #GoodFriday2020

  • Haiku in the time of Covid

    Originally posted on Vento del giorno: ? Amedeo Modigliani, Jeanne Hébuterne ? a silent day how many voices hidden in the clouds bruises Covid is not the only bad guy soft rain in empty streets the smell of earth alone at home I talk to myself in conversation lockdown silence widens inside me © A.M.

  • larger than life you say

    Originally posted on K.: like a rock crushing your soul from a place beyond the sky and what no one will tell spoken, distilled into a symbolic language but what of after?  what of the cosmos surrounded by the abyss— My poem, “The Same Old Song”, is among the writing posted today at The Ekphrastic…

  • Today’s Haiku (April 10, 2020)

    Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 巣燕の悲しみ合ふを人知らず　　　河東碧梧桐 sutsubame no kanashimiau o hito shirazu swallows in the nest share their sorrow we don’t know about it                                                 Hekigoto Kawahigashi from “Haiku Dai-Saijiki” (“Comprehensive Haiku Saijiki”), Kadokawa Shoten, Tokyo, 2006 Fay’s Note:   Hekigoto Kawahigashi (1873-1937)

  • Transformation: A Day 9 #NaPoWriMo2020 / #GloPoWriMo #haibun

    windswept leaves suddenly no one walks the street Step further through the encroaching fog if you want to reach the light blue sky the swaying branches still bud

  • Keep calm and read a haiku…(27)

    #Haiku Happenings #9: Macrus Liljedahl’s latest haiku!

  • Haiku Dialogue: Haiku Prism-Yellow

    Originally posted on Vento del giorno: lost summer a kiss tasting of yellow melon Anna Maria Domburg-Sancristoforo perduta estate giallo melone il sapore d’un bacio https://www.thehaikufoundation.org/2020/04/08/haiku-dialogue-haiku-prism-yellow