Frank J. Tassone

Month: May 2020

  • Grief-stricken: an .@ImageCurve #haibun

    Mira cries. She opens her arms and holds them out toward me. I envelop her. Feel her chest heave with the staccato beat of a carpenter’s hammering. Listen to her muffled sobs. All I can do is hold her. Reassure her that she’s not alone as a lifetime’s grief swallows her. damp collargrasshopper songsfade in…

  • Relentless

    Originally posted on haiku tree: tiny bugs relentlessly buzz around my face ?

  • gathering

    Originally posted on Haiku Gravy: blown blossom overflowing potholes

  • spring – – haiku

    Originally posted on Ontheland: spring the miracle of apple green from grey April 28, 2020 ©️2020 Ontheland

  • “fresh clouds…” a #tanka (5/1/20)

    5/1/20: unprompted fresh clouds filling up the first blue sky in days those “good people” brandishing AR-15s in Lansing #tanka #kyoka #micropoetry #poetry #coronavirus

  • Today’s Haiku (May 1, 2020)

    Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 汐干狩父が煙になっている  田島健一 shiohigari chichi ga kemuri ni natteiru             shellfish gathering             my father becomes             smoke                                                 Kenichi Tajima from “Tadanaranu Po” (Unusual ‘Po’), haiku collection of Kenichi Tajima, Furansu-do, Tokyo 2017 Fay’s Note:   ‘shiohigari’ (shellfish gathering) is a spring kigo.

  • Beltane

    Beltane

    #Haiku Happenings #5: Maria Gianna Iannucci’s latest #haiku!

  • #Haiku Happenings #4: Scott Metz presents a #monoku by Lee Gurga!