Author: Frank J. Tassone

  • Smuggs Chronicle ’14, Day 9: August 2, 2014, Part I (my latest #ImageCurve #haibun)

    We drive into Jeffersonville for breakfast. The Mix Café and Bakery had a cozy, quaint décor. But the menu on a chalkboard carried limited—and pricey—breakfast entrees. We return to 58 Main, our perennial favorite. Packed house— a woman with a tattooed arm serves herself coffee Shelburne Museum. 45 acres of artistic landscapes, gardens, galleries, and…

  • Haiku: Catching Footprints

    Haiku: Catching Footprints

    #Haiku Happenings #9: Xenia Tran’s latest #haiku!

  • to listen ~ troiku

    Originally posted on rivrvlogr: to listen, fine not to listen, fine too… nightingale ???????????????Chiyo-Ni ~~~~~~~ to listen, accept the sounds around you try to understand fine not to listen, fine too… being a part of that world accepting each voice nightingale singing for all who listen knowing when to sing I try to finish a…

  • desert rose

    Originally posted on Grahn Song: desert rosestanding by the roadthumb in the airwith headlights on the horizonyou still the rising moon Atlas Poetica 36

  • “a gentle breeze…” a #tanka (6/27/19)

    6/27/19: finding a way a gentle breeze and the rustle of leaves it passes through finding a way to relax this summer vacation day #tanka #micropoetry #poetry

  • fan – – haiku

    Originally posted on Ontheland: a quiet bench – the fan whiting out the television . . ©️2019 Ontheland

  • IS IT FRIENDLY

    Originally posted on Daniel J Flosi is Consumed: Suddenly I heard myself saying: it’s someone else’s preconceived notion of who a person is based on what they like. It’s a stereotype. And we don’t base Our Lives on other people’s stereotypes. The neighborhood cat asks, is it friendly? just above my head the hummingbird chirps.

  • Today’s Haiku (June 27, 2019)

    Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 飛魚(あご)とんで地図に描かかれし赤き国  榎本好宏 ago tonde chizu ni kakareshi akaki kuni             flying fish jump             the red country             drawn in the map                                                             Yoshihiro Enomoto from ‘Haidan,’ (‘Haiku Stage’) a monthly haiku magazine, July 2017 Issue, Honami Shoten, Tokyo Fay’s Note:   ‘ag0’ or ‘tobiuo’ (frying fish)…