Frank J. Tassone

Month: April 2022

  • Miniscule Hope

    Awaiting that flutter of butterfly wings that summons Tsunamis. Yearning for the mustard-seed-sized faith that moves mountains. Wondering what quark will be the lever that lifts the universe. Trusting in the smallest of the small, for in what else can I? hazy moon a single cherry blossom floats to the ground

  • My Daily #Haiku (4/16/22)

    4/11/22: fog; 4/16/22: garden lilac garden—an evening fog obscuresthe Milky Way #haiku #micropoetry #poetry #napowrimo2022 #glopowrimo2022 #NPM2022

  • Today’s Haiku (April 15, 2022)

    Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): さくらさくら炭水化物断ち難し　　黒澤あき緒　 sakura sakura tansuikabutsu tachigatashi ??????????? cherry blossoms, cherry blossoms… ??????????? difficult to give up ??????????? carbohydrates ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? Akio Kurosawa from Haidan, (Haiku Stage) a monthly haiku magazine, June 2017 Issue, Honami Shoten, Tokyo

  • Earthrise Rolling Haiku Collaboration 2022 – The Haiku Foundation

    #Haiku Happenings #5: THF presents the Earthrise Rolling Haiku Collaboration 2022 (hat tip Ellen Grace Olinger)! Welcome to the world’s largest annual collaborative poem. This year our seed poem takes up the theme of rebirth, as International Haiku Poetry Day this year takes place on the day of the  celebration of Easter. Please add your…

  • Daily Haiku: April 16, 2022

    Originally posted on Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog: fallen leavesglimmer as they slow the brook       by Susan Bonk Plumridge (Canada)Bloo Outlier Journal,  Issue #1, December 2020

  • Sakura Amore

    The garden of the Garden State teems with new flora. Mira and I stride the grounds on an unseasonably warm, sunny good Friday. Forsythias and daffodils almost shine as they bask in the afternoon radiance. The white Cherry blossoms have just peaked, while their pink cousins already fade. We stride among giants I could not…

  • 4.15.22 dream haiku

    Originally posted on Basho and Jung: Mom and Dad grow young telling me what they’d forgotten

  • Originally posted on WHITE SKIES: . leading the blind through the fields of a bad moon .