Author: Frank J. Tassone

  • Today’s Haiku (June 20, 2019)

    Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 夜の色斑にのこる天牛  山田佳乃 yoru no iro madara ni nokoru kamikirimushi  night color left in spots on its body a long-horn beetle                                     Kano Yamada from ‘Haidan,’ (‘Haiku Stage’) a monthly haiku magazine, September 2017 Issue, Honami Shoten, Tokyo ?

  • Originally posted on weird laburnum: the singing white eyes of this bird silent snow forty little words leaping on a green ant a black cross stretching the river in your change pawprints deep in the forest you swallow lilies tremble the wake of the pond children dying treesI religiously swallow the bright sea homesick we…

  • After the Rain

    Originally posted on Adas Poetry Alcove: Carpe Diem #1683 Troiku Month (12) White Valley CloudsAfter after the rain breathing deeply white valley clouds © Jane Reichhold (Taken from: “A Dictionary of Haiku”) after the rain heat of the earth rising to my fingertips breathing deeply damp earth mingled with jasmine ancient memories white valley clouds…

  • “slouching toward solstice…” a #tanka (6/20/19)

    6/20/19: prompt-free slouching toward solstice with the promise of summer and vacation after a break in the rain birdsongs and a passing jet #tanka #micropoetry #poetry

  • 41906 – Troiku

    #Haiku Happenings #6: Sky’s latest #troiku #haibun for Carpe Diem!

  • Daily Haiku: June 20, 2019

    Originally posted on Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog: morning walk from mist to mist a stone bridge ? by Nikolay Grankin (Russia) Presence, #62, November 2018 ?

  • Haibun: Summer Solstice

    #Haiku Happenings #4: Xenia Tran’s latest #haibun for my current #haikai challenge!

  • My Daily #Haiku (6/20/19)

    6/20/19: library still wind chime overdue books strewn across the front seat #haiku #micropoetry #poetry