Frank J. Tassone

Month: May 2020

  • nd 5.17 carried kunpuu 1p – Jules Pens Some Gems…

    #Haiku Happenings #3: Jules’ latest solo #renga for my current #haikai challenge! carried kunpuu walk first; then shopping a gentle rain begins as I load groceries lawn was mowed, now it can grow muffins got baked for dessert seedlings grow taller as they follow the sun that plays at hide and seek second walk as…

  • #Haikai Challenge #139: fragrant breeze (kunpuu) — Spring’s Fragrant Array

    Originally posted on Tao-Talk: hyacinth and violets Spring’s Fragrant Array ? Rosemary pushes Against lake breeze from the west As it gathers friends. Violets, lilies, lilac; Hyacinth dance with humus. Earthworms inhale to Celebrate in their blindness Spring’s fragrant array. ? Today’s offering is an Oriental Octet. An Oriental Octet is an invented verse form…

  • Fragrance of Violence

    Fragrance of Violence

    #Haiku Happenings #1 (5/18/20): Dave Madden’s latest #senryu for my current #Haikai Challenge!

  • #Haikai Challenge #139 (5/17/20): fragrant breeze (kunpuu) #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka #haiga #renga

    I hope you enjoyed fawning around, haijin! Congratulations to last week’s contributors: Haikai Challenge Participants 1. Dave Madden2. Revived Writer3. Li/Lisa 4. Jules5. Linda Lee Lyberg6. Eugenia 7. Janice8. Xenia Tran Powered by… Mister Linky’s Magical Widgets. Ultreya! Take a deep breath. Smell that? It’s the aroma of blossoms. It’s the scent of mint, or…

  • Completing the Chore: a .@ImageCurve #haibun

    The dishwasher hums, and the whooshing of its water drowns out the crickets. I eat my oatmeal out of Frankie’s Frosted Flakes bowl: not another clean one remains. warm aftertasteempty pill containersbeside bottles first published in Image Curve, May 14, 2020 UPDATE: for dVerse Poets’ OpenLinkNight #267 (pubtended by Grace) The Pub is open! Come…

  • Haiku del giorno – Daily haiku

    Originally posted on Vento del giorno: ? © A.M. ? peonie rosa il nitore del giorno nel suo finire pink peonies the clarity of the day in its end © A.M.

  • Today’s Haiku (May 17, 2020)

    Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 渋谷零時ガチャカプセルの中に蛇　　今井　聖 shibuya reiji gacha kapuseru no naka ni hebi             midnight in Shibuya             a snake             inside a ‘gacha’ capsule                                                             Sei Imai from “Haiku-kai” (“Haiku World,” a monthly haiku magazine), December 2016 Issue, Bungaku No Mori, Tokyo Fay’s Note:   ‘gacha’ is a capsuled…

  • Headline Haiku: Metropolis

    Originally posted on K.: Inspired by Phil Gomm’s “Metropolis” prompt, I’ve revived Headline Haiku for a New York pandemic collage.  I originally did a series of these current event newspaper artworks on methodtwomadness, the blog I do with Nina (who is on an extended break), but I haven’t done one in a long time. It…