Frank J. Tassone

Month: June 2022

  • Kingfisher, 2022

    Originally posted on My Inner Voice: retreatingto my old selfblue orchid Kingfisher, issue #5 April, 2022

  • Adjei Agyei-Baah: Scaring Crow

    Adjei Agyei-Baah: Scaring Crow

    Originally posted on Gregory Piko: Adjei Agyei-Baah is a widely published poet from Ghana. He has written several books including Afriku (Red Moon Press, 2016) and is co-founder of the Africa Haiku Network and The Mamba (Africa’s premiere haiku journal). Adjei is currently pursuing his PhD studies in New Zealand. Earlier in 2022, Buttonhook Press…

  • Emptying Haibun

    Originally posted on O at the Edges: ? Emptying Haibun Waiting, I open myself but nothing enters. Even music’s comfort avoids me, preferring calmer ports or perhaps another’s wind choices. I drop the weighted cord through the flute, pull it, and watch the cloth ease out. Some days pain drags behind me no matter what…

  • Solstice Sorrow

    First light arrives before five in the morning. The birdsongs arrive with it. A cacophony of twittering, and avian arias, shatter my sleep, and any hopes of returning to it. By afternoon, however, a scattering of songs—at well-spaced intervals—may arise. This abundance of radiance—so close to the end of the academic year. This longest day—followed…

  • Haibun Monday 6-20-22: Solstice

    Originally posted on dVerse: Welcome, poets! I am Frank Tassone, your host for today’s Haibun Monday! Today, we blend prose and haiku together to craft that famous Japanese poetic form. And today, our inspiration is the first solstice of the year! Summer Solstice? Or Winter Solstice? You decide. Because that depends on which side of…

  • Happy Father’s Day

    Originally posted on Heed not Steve: Father’s Day –he settles intolove’s gravity —— © Steve Mitchell 2022  — Happy Father’s Day, Dad! I love you.

  • cento tanka — June 21

    Originally posted on Peter Frankis writes: who wrote these lyrics? the house is loud?with autumn rain the night air is…bright it’s already 2 a.m this strange thing must have crept Image: Hill 60 is the ‘exclusive’ end of Port Kembla (doesn’t stop lime leaking from their cement render does it?) A cento tanka comprised as…

  • “a soft…” a #tanka (6/20/22)

    6/20/22: unprompted a softwhoosh of windherean afternoon coolpassing away #tanka #micropoetry #poetry