Frank J. Tassone

Month: June 2020

  • Lockdown Poetry 18

    Originally posted on Cafe Haiku: Cafe Haiku is doing a series on haiku, haibun, tanka or related styles on the subject of the Wuhan virus lockdown which is now daily life for most of the world as the virus spreads to alarming proportions. A big thank you to all those who contributed to this effort…

  • Daily Haiku: June 7, 2020

    Originally posted on Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog: county fair   second place ribbon   in an empty stall       by Joe McKeon (USA) First Place Harold G. Henderson Haiku Awards, 2014  

  • Scurry

    Originally posted on haiku tree: the sound of footsteps geckos scurry into the brush ? ?

  • #SilentSaturday (6/6/20)

    As if you haven’t already guessed, a rest from haiku See you tomorrow!

  • “passing car…” a #tanka (6/5/20)

    6/5/20: prompt-free passing car and late afternoon birdsongs do the memorial candles still burn? #tanka #micropoetry #poetry #BlackLivesMatter #JusticeForGeorgeFloyd

  • breakfast

    Originally posted on Haiku Gravy: off to work pigeons in the cherry tree

  • Pacing

    Originally posted on haiku tree: noon pacing the house out of ideas ?

  • Haiku by Etheridge Knight

    Originally posted on Miriam's Well: Poetry, Land Art, and Beyond: Haiku by Etheridge Knight I admired and followed his work from my Boston years on–but never realized he wrote haiku. Time to re-read these. 1 Eastern guard tower glints in sunset; convicts rest like lizards on rocks. 2 The piano man is stingy, at 3…