Frank J. Tassone

Month: July 2020

  • A Triple-Waterfall Experience: a #haiku sequence

    12, 000 years carving through limestone Genesee river low-pitched roar a saturating mist soft on our skin stair upon stair spreading from the bottom a rainbow a long hike how mesmorizing, this falling water even in this stifling heat Portage Falls I’m hosting dVerse Poets’ MTB, where we write haiku sequences. The pub is open!…

  • Today’s Haiku (July 30, 2020)

    Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): わが旅のこれより先は大夕焼　　長谷川　櫂 waga tabi no koreyori saki wa ôyuyake             my journey             from here             just a vast sunset                                                 Kai Hasegawa from ‘Haidan,’ (‘Haiku Stage’) a monthly haiku magazine, September  2016 Issue, Honami Shoten, Tokyo Fay’s Note:  ‘yuuyake (or ‘yuyake’) (sunset) is a summer…

  • MTB: Haiku Sequence

    Originally posted on dVerse: Welcome to DVerse, Poets! Frank Tassone here, your host for today’s Meet the Bar, where we take a deep dive into poetic craft. Many of us have written haibun for Haibun Monday prompts. That means we have written haiku. Did you know that you could write multiple haiku that express a…

  • Almost Harvest

    Originally posted on writing in north norfolk: no dawn chorus rising later every day sunflowers ripe wheat unmoving in the field a splash of poppies brittle with heat leaves already yellow awaiting release scarecrow silhouette leaning west towards the sun redundancy silent blackbirds in their annual moult counting feathers Kim M. Russell, 30th July 2020…

  • My Daily #Haiku (7/30/20)

    7/30/20: day calm before rain …a “Long Day’s Journeyinto Night” #haiku #micropoetry #poetry

  • #Haiku: Waterfall

    Originally posted on Charmed Chaos: graceful waterfallflowing from a hidden source-ancient mystery Frank J. Tassone Haikai Challenge #149 Waterfall

  • Cascading – A Tanka – Poetry For Healing

    Cascading Energy unleashed Rushing rapidly downward Smoothing jagged rocks Silencing the screams of age Washing away wounds of time     Christine Bolton – Poetry for Healing © Written for: Frank Tassone’s Weekly Haiki Challenge #149 — Read on poetryforhealing.com/2020/07/28/cascading-a-tanka/ #Haiku Happenings #2: Christine Bolton’s latest #tanka for my current #Haikai challenge!

  • waterfall

    Originally posted on K.: beginnings fall in to ends—threads of song braided into rainbowed clouds light and form cascade, flying in tandem—mist layered sky For Frank Tassone’s Haikai Challenge #149, waterfall, and inspired by Ken Gierke’s wonderful photos of Niagara Falls.