Frank J. Tassone

Month: January 2022

  • Haiga

    Originally posted on Vento del giorno: Photo @A.M.

  • Haiku Euro Top 100, for the fifth year in a row

    Originally posted on Il fiume scorre ancora: Haiku Euro Top 100🎉🎋quinto anno di seguito🌟 Per il quinto anno di seguito, sono inclusa tra i cento autori europei più creativi per gli haiku.Sono molto onorata per questo. 🙏🥰 Congratulazioni a tutti i poeti presenti nell’edizione 2021. Really honoured to have received the Certificate, EUROPEAN TOP 100,…

  • Recovering

    Residual aches. Are they coronal remnants, or Rheumatoidal antecedants? After almost a week, it’s still difficult to tell. Nevertheless, I welcome a flow of returning vitality. Even if it trickles like stream during drought. Even if the chorus of nailbiting thoughts arise with this flow: How the candidate hasn’t answered my text, with his incomplete…

  • New Year’s Eve

    Originally posted on Poems From Oostburg, Wisconsin: New Year’s Evefragrance of liliesfrom a store

  • Haiku

    Originally posted on Bending moments: squelching heat clouds that hold promise of rain * ( Hedgerow #137, Dec. 31, 2021)

  • Today’s Haiku （December 31, 2021）

    Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 父祖の地に闇のしづまる大晦日　　　飯田蛇笏 fuso no chi ni yami no shizumaru ômisoka ??????????? darkness becomes hushed ??????????? in the land of ancestors ??????????? New Year’s Eve ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? Dakotsu Iida from Haiku Saijiki electronic version edited by Kadokawa Shoten, published by Kodansha Sophia Shuppan, Tokyo, Japan, 2018 Fay’s Note:?…

  • New Year’s Moments: a #TankaProse

    A sushi-combo/Bento-box dinner combo, and then Frank goes out. We watch “In the Heights,” then the NYE shows. Dance to Journey performing live at Times Square. Kiss at midnight. Frank texts, then calls, and we wish each other Happy New Year. after midnight the sudden fireworks amidst falling rain holding each other in twisted sheets…

  • In The European Top 100 haiku authors in 2021

    Originally posted on Stella Pierides: Wonderful news! Happy to be included in “The European Top 100 haiku authors in 2021” Congratulations to all poets! A lovely surprise on New Year’s Eve. Thank you, Krzysztof Kokot for the honor! For the list click here: Haiku Euro Top