Frank J. Tassone

Month: July 2020

  • #Haikai Challenge 147: smoldering [hot] (moyuru) — The sound of heat

    Originally posted on Tao-Talk: Walker’s Cicada ? ? Ditches dry, frogs hide; heat sings as cicadas wake – wind sighs through willows. ? ? This is a second offering for the prompt, based on another happening this week. Frank J. Tassone is the host of Haikai Challenge.  Frank says: This week, write the haikai poem…

  • Christine Bolton’s Extinguished – A Tanka – Poetry For Healing

    #Haiku Happenings #2: Christine Bolton’s latest #tanka for my current #haikai challenge! Extinguished — Beaded sweat gathersin pools of salty dropletson smoldering earthHere in the valley of deathwhere known life evaporates https://poetryforhealing.com/2020/07/17/extinguished-a-tanka/

  • #Haiku: Smoldering

    Originally posted on Charmed Chaos: air rippling with heat- in the distance, a mirage water illusion https://youtu.be/_tiOMu_Bf8Q Frank J. Tassone Hakai Challenge #147 Smoldering

  • “Who Am I?” -a #haibun

    I am Chuang Chou dreaming he is a butterfly. I am the butterfly dreaming he is Chuang Chou. I am the dream of Chuang Chou and butterfly being each other. I am the complement between them. I am the Way you can’t go, the Name you can’t say. I am the unnamed origin of Heaven…

  • Daily Haiku: July 17, 2020

    Originally posted on Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog: cool cave in France paintings of bulls and deer older than God       by Howard Lee Kilby (USA) Modern Haiku, Vol. XXVI, No. 3, Fall, 1995

  • World Haiku Series 2019 (160) Haiku by Richa Sharma

    Originally posted on Akita International Haiku Network: World Haiku Series 2019 (160) Haiku by Richa Sharma ? Teashop — nibbling the belly laughs cold dusk ? Asahi Haikuist Network ? 喫茶店 かじって食べて笑う 冷たい夕暮れ ? summer rue – sparrow eggs fall as curtain unrolls ? My Haiku Pond ? 夏の悲しみ すずめの卵が落ちる カーテンが広がるにつれて ? understanding his sermon…

  • Unawares

    Originally posted on Heed not Steve: summer and I clench —- © Steve Mitchell 2020

  • “tossed sheet…” a #tanka (7/17/20)

    7/17/20: PROMPT: sleeplessness tossed sheets the rambling thoughts and sensations up and down constantly on those insomnial nights #tanka #micropoetry #poetry