Frank J. Tassone

Month: May 2020

  • My Daily #Haiku (5/21/20)

    5/21/20: snore timefor the wife’s first snore …twilight #haiku #micropoetry #poetry

  • Today’s Haiku (May 21, 2020)

    Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 地下街の列柱五月来たりけり　　奥坂まや chikagai no recchû gogatsu kitarikeri             rows of pillars             at an underground mall             May has come                                                 Maya Okusaka from “Haiku Shiki” (“Haiku Four Seasons,” a monthly haiku magazine), December 2016 Issue, Tokyo Shiki Shuppan, Tokyo

  • #Haiku Happenings #8: Scott Metz presents a #monoku by Gary Hittmeyer!

  • [blankRenku] neighbors passing by

    Originally posted on TheGuern: neighbors passing byjupiter and saturn toowhen will they gaze back still uninhabited, our neighbor’s house still wishing for someone to stop for tea Paul Guernsey © 2020

  • #Haikai Poetry Alert: MTB: 5-Line Japanese Poetic Forms

    Originally posted on dVerse: Stock Photo: Takebayashi of Kyoto Welcome to DVerse, Poets! I am Frank Tassone, your host for today’s Meet the Bar, where we delve into poetic craft. This month is National Tanka Month, or #NaTankaMo. In honor of this celebration of tanka, I would like to focus on three of the 5-line…

  • Gogyohka sequence for damselflies

    Originally posted on Jane Dougherty Writes: Frank Tassone was kind enough to choose a poem of mine to feature as an example of the gogyohka form for the dverse prompt this evening. Thank you, Frank. Here are three more. ? silver the pool pewter the sky and in the golden dust of bedstraw the damsels…

  • Love Notes from a Courtesan

    Originally posted on writing in north norfolk: aromatic steam rises from a matcha bowl waiting for your lips to press against porcelain sweet taste of jasmine flowers our tantric dancing trips the light of galaxies we are earth and moon cheek to cheek and face to face inhaling each other’s breath when we last parted…

  • We turn away…(tanka)

    Originally posted on A Poet in Time: ? This tanka was published in Hedgerow, a journal of small poems ~ #130, Winter 2020 ? ? we turn away from all we just can’t face— the glistening red of a vulture’s head emerges from a carcass ? ? ? Poet’s note: Out of decay comes art and beauty.…