Frank J. Tassone

Month: September 2020

  • Haiku # 684

    Originally posted on Rooted in Love: …أوراق الخريفبلا أثر يذهبكل شيء ~ Autumn begins…my heart a yellow leaflistening to the wind L’automne commence…mon cœur est une feuille jauneà l’écoute du vent الخريف يبدأقلبي ورقةٌ صفراء تنصتالى الريح ~ ولّى نصفهاحياتي التي تغوصفي ضباب الخريف Its half gonemy life that steepsin autumn mist

  • #Haibun: Rebirth

    Originally posted on Charmed Chaos: These past few months I have been living in a dazed confusion. Between the Covid 19 virus and insane politics, I have been wandering through a murky forest. But the gut wrencher was being diagnosed with breast cancer in June. From the moment I first heard the news, this fog…

  • Lunch—deferred: an @ImageCurve #haibun

    All he needed to do was print his answers. But when he plugged his Alpha Smart into the printer and keyed the sequence to print, the device failed. We waited—in vain—for help from Astor’s Tech support, a CUNY intern in over his head. I scribed his answers and then walked him to class. All I…

  • Thanks to Chrysanthemum for Publishing Back to the Middle Ages

    Originally posted on Alexis Rotella's Blog: Back to the Middle Ages A little girl teaches her kitten to jump rope At the garden center I search for tiny pink flowers to encircle a potted evergreen on our front porch. Under my breath, I start to sing Ring a Ring a Rosie, pocket full of posey,…

  • Daily Haiku: Sept. 26, 2020

    Originally posted on Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog: snow filling our tracks into the woods by heart by Tom Clausen (USA) Snapshots, #9, 2001

  • Tanka Tuesday – Night Sky #Haiku #Tanka

    Originally posted on Ada's Poetry Alcove (2): COLLEEN’S 2020 WEEKLY #TANKA TUESDAY #POETRY CHALLENGE NO. 196, #THEMEPROMPT My father introduced me to the constellations as a child.  We would first look for the milky way and then start finding the summer constellations.  Of all my siblings I was the only one really interested.  Even with…

  • My Daily #Haiku (9/26/20)

    9/26/20: fountain morning fogthe sound of waterfrom a fountain #haiku #micropoetry #poetry

  • Mark M. Redfearn’s “September twilight…”

    #Haiku Happenings #3: Mark Redfearn’s latest haiku! September twilight—   the postman skips my mailbox   but fills my neighbor’s. Mark M. Redfearn