Frank J. Tassone

Month: June 2020

  • #SilentSunday (6/28/20)

    A rest from #haiku See you tomorrow!

  • #Haikai Challenge #145 (6/27/20): wild iris (ayame) #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka #haiga #renga

    I hope you enjoyed your Solstice, haijin! I know I did! Congratulations to last week’s contributors: Haikai Challenge Participants 1. Eugenia2. s.s.3. Peter4. Jane Dougherty5. Dave Madden 6. Jules7. Tessa Dean8. Kerfe Roig9. Revived Writer10. Ron. Lavalette 11. Li/Lisa12. Xenia Tran13. Ken Gierke / rivrvlogr14. Linda Lee Lyberg Powered by… Mister Linky’s Magical Widgets. Ultreya!…

  • Arid Hope: a #writephoto #TankaProse

    An endless drought. The resevoir continues to dry out. Wheat and barley fields, once so full of promise, have whilted for want of water. Like everything else. We watch the medicine woman stirring her pot over a fire. She adds dash of some foul-smelling herb, chants a litany in a language none of us understand.…

  • Haiku # 680

    Originally posted on Rooted in Love: Drenched in mistmy heart is a landscapeof eternal longing ~ Long after we partedher perfume lingeredon my trembling hand ~ Moon in the windowthe sound of my heartbreaking before dawn ~ Still caught in my throatthe words I dared not sayat her funeral ~ Buddhas in the snow…their bald…

  • After the Burn

    Originally posted on mehflowers: I remember a time she spoke of margaritas, and I, under my straw hat, remained concrete under a wax seal of determinism and dogma. Oh how God uses time to break us! She would swim with sharks if she could. I could play one no longer. Now, smooth sailing, I still…

  • Today’s Haiku (June 27, 2020)

    Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 鳶の眼に湖の全容南風　　　　井上康明 tobi no me ni umi no zenyô minamikaze             entire  lake             in a kite’s eyes             south wind                                                 Yasuaki Inoue from “Haiku-kai” (“Haiku World,” a monthly haiku magazine), July 2017 Issue, Bungaku No Mori, Tokyo

  • My Daily #Haiku (6/27/20)

    6/27/20: tap thunder coming —a Brita pitcher filledwith tap water #haiku #micropoetry #poetry

  • 2332

    Originally posted on Cat Nap Revue: seven kinds of fishfor the catscold oatmeal for me