Frank J. Tassone

Month: July 2020

  • Untitled post 23209

    Originally posted on Echidna Tracks: ? cold sky loping ahead of the rain black cockatoos ? John Low ? ?

  • 稲美里佳の短歌：Tanka by Rika Inami (35)

    Originally posted on Akita International Haiku Network: 2020年7月 短歌 July 2020, Tanka All rights reserved ©Rika Inami 稲美 里佳 ? 1. ? ? 鈴なりの花びらにほふ桐の花　空にやさしき夢鳥やすむ ? paulownia  full of flowering  and fragrant… a dream-bird tender to air alights on it ? Dream-bird means Phoenix. It is said that Phoenix alights on the paulownia-tree. / 夢鳥は鳳凰を指します。鳳凰は桐の木にとまると言われています。 2.…

  • ancient stream

    Originally posted on The Lotus: ancient stream overflowing nectar

  • A Palisades Park Hike: a #tanka-prose

    Stateline Lookout, in Palisades Interstate Park. An old state road runs along the top of the Palisades overlooking the western shore of the Hudson River. Five-hundred feet above the water, the views extend from the new Tappan Zee bridge to the edge of the Bronx. Our two-mile loop hike–following a trail down the cliffs to…

  • Daily Haiku: July 18, 2020

    Originally posted on Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog: trough drunk dry the cattle leave no more reflection       by LeRoy Gorman (Canada) Modern Haiku, Vol. XXVI, No. 3, Fall, 1995

  • The Silence

    Originally posted on Cafe Haiku: Special Feature – Daily Haiku This is the last one. Do join us at the Book Launch on Sunday. the silenceas we drink the morning tea…mother’s wrinkled hands note:  Homecoming! On some mornings, you find yourself sitting next to your mother drinking tea. She has understood the exact taste I like,…

  • Lockdown

    Originally posted on Nicole Hague-Andrews: Haibun Altered/sketch book

  • My Daily #Haiku (7/18/20)

    7/18/20: hunger another scorcher —a still unsatisfiedhunger for justice #haiku #micropoetry #poetry #BlackLivesMatter