Frank J. Tassone

Month: April 2020

  • My Daily #Haiku (4/25/20)

    4/25/20: pail emerging warmthleft beside the painted wallan empty pail #haiku #micropoetry #poetry #NaPoWriMo2020 #GloPoWriMo2020

  • O Wine! (a #NaPoWriMo2020 / #GloPoWriMo2020 solo- #renga #ode)

    In hoc genimine vitis es óperis mánuum hóminum O, fruit of the vine vitis Vinifera Cuius culmen in How ebullient, you grapes boistrous in the summer sun What a fools errand believing you a native of other soils How you grew on the mountains saddling two continents How you spread over seas in Greek and…

  • Daily Haiku: April 24, 2020

    Originally posted on Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog: cloud reflections in a rainforest stream the footbridge quakes ? by Geoff Pope (USA) Fresh Out: An Arts and Poetry Collective, June 2019 ? ?

  • Face by Face

    Originally posted on Heed not Steve: in this breeze – he feels no hurry to zoom —- © Steve Mitchell 2020

  • #Haiku Happenings #7: Scott Metz presents a #monoku by Tiffany Shaw-Diaz!

  • “still branches…” a #tanka (4/24/20)

    4/24/20: unprompted still branches after a soft rain birdsongs how an accomplishment still leads to unwept tears #tanka #micropoetry #poetry #NaPoWriMo2020 #GloPoWriMo2020  #virtualpoetryjam #remotelearning #corona

  • You turn a deaf ear . . . (3 Tanka)

    Originally posted on A Poet in Time: ? Published in Gusts 31 (Spring/Summer 2020), Tanka Canada ? Three tanka written and read by Mary Kendall (click on link): ? ? how do I tell you about the darkness                              that embraces me,     uninvited     unwanted   ?           ~…

  • My Anchor

    Originally posted on kanzen sakura: An American Sentence for Posted Positive Poetry. the American Sentence was created by Allen Ginsberg because he couldn’t follow the rules for proper classic haiku. It must be a complete sentence and exactly 17 syllables. My Anchor “When someone you love becomes a memory…that memory becomes a treasure.” — Unknown…