Author: Frank J. Tassone

  • How to Write a Haiku Poem

    How to Write a Haiku Poem

    #Haiku Happenings #5: Colleen Chesebro offers a primer on writing haiku!

  • sizzle – – haiku

    Originally posted on Ontheland: midsummer the sizzle of water on earth . . Midsummer is the theme of this week’s Haikai Challenge. Where I live, in Ontario, the approaching summer solstice (June 21) is the first official day of summer. In some traditions the solstice is considered a time of ‘midsummer’ celebrations. Under ‘midsummer’ Wikipedia…

  • My Daily #Haiku (6/19/19)

    6/19/19: gates when last I heard “Piper at the Gates of Dawn” morning rain #haiku #micropoetry #poetry

  • Crowskin

    Originally posted on Shore/lines: Slowly, I come to. First fingers. Then arms, legs and toes. From somewhere a torso appears, topped by a head. The pain takes a little longer to arrive.  But when it does the body is gathered in a cocoon of ringing muscles and tightening skin. Eyelids flicker.  Hands reach for water…

  • ‘strong current’ 60/100 #haikufeltings

    Originally posted on Stella Pierides: https://frankjtassone.files.wordpress.com/2019/06/strong-current-small.jpg

  • Summer Solstice

    Summer Solstice

    #Haiku Happenings #1 (6/19/19): Reena’s latest #senryu for Carpe Diem!

  • First Guitar, our Latest Decoration: a #quadrille #haibun for #dversepoets

    The ESP shines in the corner. When I first received that high school graduation present, I could not put it down. I routinely played Pentatonic scales, jazz fusion riffs and blues chord progressions in the basement. How many nights did I play Led Zepplin’s Black Dog or Pink Floyd’s “Wish you were here?” How many…

  • Today’s Haiku (June 18, 2019)

    Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 梅雨寒の紅茶ときどきカスティラ  水内慶太 tsuyuzamu no kôcha tokidoki kasutiira black tea on a day of plum rain coldness a Castella cake sometimes Keita Mizuuchi from ‘Haidan,’ (‘Haiku Stage’) a monthly haiku magazine, June 2017 Issue, Honami Shoten, Tokyo Fay’s Note:  ‘kasutiira’ (or ‘kasutera’) is a sponge cake, originally…