Frank J. Tassone

Month: July 2020

  • #Haikai Challenge #149 (7/25/20): Waterfall (taki) #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka #haiga #renga

    Hope you enjoyed the meadow, haijin! Congratulations to last week’s contributors! Looking ahead: Letchworth State Park, one of the best kept secrets of the NYS Parks commission. At least the New York City Back-yarders like me! I just finished breakfast with an intimate view of nearby Middle Falls. You can already guess this week’s kigo,…

  • My Daily #Haiku (7/25/20)

    7/25/20: weight Middle Falls …the weight of the worldlightens #haiku #micropoetry #poetry

  • Upstate NY Travel Notes, Day 1 (7/24/20): Letchworth

    After a four-and-a-half hour drive along I-86 and I-390, we arrive at Letchworth State Park. The roar of Portage Middle Falls, the mist from its waters caressing or faces, the ascending stairs and switchbacks to the Upper Falls: We enjoy every moment of this oasis of serenity. An exquisite dinner, and a final, twilight walk…

  • “mist…” a #tanka (7/24/20)

    7/24/20: prompt — feeling calm Mistacross our facesat Middle Fallssavoring each breathof fresh air #tanka #micropoetry #poetry

  • My Daily #Haiku (7/24/20)

    7/24/20: Faith Faith as smallas a mustard seed …waterfall #haiku #micropoetry #poetry

  • HSA Meeting: an .@ImageCurve #haibun

    The Haiku Society of America’s NYC Metro chapter hosted the Society’s National Meeting. Held in a modest community room of a local West Village Arts center, perhaps 22 people gathered in the space. Forty chairs had been set in a twin series of rows flanking an aisle. Track lighting illuminated a performance space at the…

  • Today’s Haiku (July 23, 2020)

    Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 暑きこと生き抜くことに似たるかな　　吉田星子 atsuki koto ikinuku koto ni nitaru kana             being hot…             it resembles             surviving                                     Seiko Yoshida from “Haiku Shiki” (“Haiku Four Seasons,” a monthly haiku magazine), December 2016 Issue, Tokyo Shiki Shuppan, Tokyo

  • gogyohka for discomfort

    Originally posted on Jane Dougherty Writes: ? heat drips on the back of the skull like venom and no Sigyn to catch it in a cup ?