Frank J. Tassone

Month: March 2021

  • Vernal Ephemera: a #haibun

    A year plus since the lockdown, and another Spring teases seasonal change. While the sun radiates the neighborhood, uneclipsed by a single cloud, a chilly breeze blows. The daffodils broke hibernation, with the forsythias following close behind. Nevertheless, a familiar, invernal chill lingers. Tomorrow promises showers; my aching joints confirm. And new COVID cases surge…

  • Her Hatsu Hana

    #Haiku Happenings #6: K. Hartless’ latest #haibun for #dVersePoetsPub’s #HaibunMonday! Yard Sale of Thoughts Their first time, arm and arm that day; my parents met me in Vienna, and we took the orange line all the way into the capital to glimpse that year’s earliest array of Cherry Blossoms, draped beside the reflective pond; Easter’s…

  • Morning Warm

    Originally posted on Heed not Steve: the sound of crickets back from . . . Florida? or, I don’t know —- © Steve Mitchell 2021

  • Daily Haiku: March 30, 2021

    Originally posted on Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog: years since his death his toothbrush still in its holder by Seren Fargo (USA) The Temple Bell Stops: Contemporary Poems of Grief, Loss and Change, 2012

  • My Daily #Haiku (3/30/21)

    3/30/21: rebuild daffodilsthe construction crewsrebuilding again #haiku #micropoetry #poetry

  • Passion Week

    Originally posted on Stella Pierides: Passion weekchicks preparingto hatch

  • Haiku

    Originally posted on Bending moments: morning balcony a raven’s offering of a dead rat * — Blithe Spirit, Vol.31 No1, Feb. 2021

  • Haiku del giorno – Daily haiku

    Originally posted on Vento del giorno: fiore di cardoil sospiro del ventovola sui prati thistle flowerthe sigh of the windover the meadows © A.M. Thistle Flowers Photograph by Dan Carmichael