Author: Frank J. Tassone

  • Bridge of sorrows

    Originally posted on Jane Dougherty Writes: Open link night at dverse. A trio of tanka. ? Photo©Joefrei over the stream a bridge—beneath water runs a stream bright with spangled hopes and fish leaps a bridge across sorrows ? sorrows bridge night and day you and me the past and what is to come streams of…

  • Daily Haiku: June 13, 2019

    Originally posted on Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog: senryu the meaty grin of her red-lipped mouth my divorce lawyer by Chen-ou Liu  (Canada/Taiwan) Haiku Canada Review, 11:1, 2017

  • “more summer rain…” a #tanka (6/13/19)

    6/13/19: knowing something happened more summer rain and unseasonable temperature we all know what’s happened we don’t know what we’ll do next #tanka #micropoetry #poetry

  • Summertime and a Spiderweb

    Originally posted on revivedwriter: The first haiku is in response to Heeding Haiku, which is about spiderwebs, and the haibun is for Frank’s fragrant breeze prompt.  Strong intricacy: Potential, patterned beauty In a spider’s home There was a two- or three-day heat wave, when even the breeze, warm as it was, brought little relief. It still…

  • morning garden

    Originally posted on Poems From Oostburg, Wisconsin: morning gardenshadows of lilacson the chair Ellen Grace Olinger

  • Tanka: Memories

    #Haiku Happenings #4: Xenia Tran’s latest #tanka!

  • My Daily #Haiku (6/13/19)

    6/13/19: shelf gray sky a favorite book falls off the shelf #haiku #micropoetry #poetry

  • 163.

    Originally posted on Haiku 2019: where the pig bit ya like a gutted koala vertical smile