Frank J. Tassone

Month: March 2021

  • My Daily #Haiku (3/2/21)

    3/2/21: earth shaking deep twilightwhen earth shakingnews arrives #haiku #micropoetry #poetry

  • NaHaiWriMo 2021: post script

    Originally posted on Bill Waters ~~ Haiku: Each year’s NaHaiWriMo writing prompts have a theme / gimmick. This year the writing prompts were song titles from four major music groups spanning the 1960s to the ’80s: Fleetwood Mac, Led Zeppelin, U2, and The Beatles. An interesting challenge! Using social media likes as an informal poll,…

  • Wales Haiku Journal, 2021

    Originally posted on My Inner Voice: Black Wings? wind through rafters the pressing burden of a secret JH written on the wall the pain of love HA storm light buffing the cloud base? nail marks in her palms JH blurred trails intertwine with self-imposed isolation HA north wind lines of black stubble over fields of…

  • Today’s Haiku (March 2, 2021)

    Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 雨吸つて蜂の骸のふくらみぬ　　　今井　聖 ame sutte hachi no mukuro no fukuraminu ??????????? breathing in rain ??????????? a bee’s corpse ??????????? swallows ??????????????????????????????????????????????? Sei Imai from “Haiku Dai-Saijiki” (“Comprehensive Haiku Saijiki”), Kadokawa Shoten, Tokyo, 2006

  • PSA: The Next #Haikai Challenge

    I expect to have the next #Haikai Challenge (a triple-header) out this Saturday, March 6, 2021. Expect it when you see it! rising wind the haikai we’ll soon share

  • The Path of Interior Silence: A Haibun Lenten Reflection (Encore)

    The later-afternoon sky fills with cirrus clouds again. The expected snow has not yet arrived, but my rheumatic joints inform me that it’s only a matter of time. That will mean yet another turn at the snow-thrower, gripping it tightly as it skids on ice, while it hurls fresh snowfall off our driveway. My arms…

  • My Daily #Haiku (3/1/21)

    3/1/21: fault line first starsnewlyweds discovertheir first fault line #haiku #micropoetry #poetry

  • Haibun for a sick world

    Originally posted on Jane Dougherty Writes: We care nothing for foreign wars, Ebola, infantile diarrhoea, destruction of forests, burning continents. Who even remembers ‘our girls’, or the women and children drowned in a locked Zara sweat shop making cheap clothes for us to wear once, twice, and throw away? We are content to send thoughts…