Frank J. Tassone

Month: July 2020

  • Haikai Challenge #148: summer meadow (natsuno) Search for midsummer dessert

    Originally posted on Tao Talk: Image by Jaime_silver00 Black tree silhouettes against an orange canvas set a background for deer grazing the summer meadow. They step closer to the house – and the apple tree, hoping for small early fallen fruit; crunchy dessert after the delicious yet limp blades of grass. ? ? This gogyohka…

  • These Mom Revolutions

    Hungry mothers marched toward the Russian captial in Petrograd. They demanded bread, provisions for their sons fighting on the Eastern Front in WWI. Cossocks and local police attempted to turn them back. Some officer ordered young, inexperienced, and under equipped soldiers to fire into the crowd. But when they looked down their rifles’ gunsights, they…

  • Presence, issue 67

    Originally posted on Vento del giorno: ? My haiku in the latest issue of Presence. cherry blossoms longing for a time full of songs © A.M.

  • Today’s Haiku (July 22, 2020)

    Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 武者震ひしてゐたり冷蔵庫　　小林貴子 mushaburui shiteitari reizôko             it trembles with excitement             like a warrior going to war             a refrigerator                                                 Takako Kobayashi from ‘Haidan,’ (‘Haiku Stage’) a monthly haiku magazine, July  2017 Issue, Honami Shoten, Tokyo

  • Tanka: Meadowsweet and Thistle

    Tanka: Meadowsweet and Thistle

    #Haiku Happenings #7: Xenia Trans’ latest #tanka for my current #Haikai Challenge!

  • “swaying branches…” a #tanka (7/22/20)

    7/22/20: prompt-free swaying branches as cicada songs commence all these summer goals undone and half the break is over #tanka #micropoetry #poetry

  • Revolutions

    #Haiku Happenings #6: Reena Saxena’s latest #tankaprose for #dversePoets #TuesdayPoetics!

  • World Haiku Series 2019 (163) Haiku by Rosa Maria Di Salvatore

    Originally posted on Akita International Haiku Network: World Haiku Series 2019 (163) Haiku by Rosa Maria Di Salvatore ? rough sea… the taste of salt on my lips ? 荒海 塩の味 私の唇に ? sunrise… the pink of her cheeks ? 日の出 ピンクの色 彼女の頬の ? the smile I wear… poppies ? 笑顔 私は浮かべている ケシの花 ? flowers…