Author: Frank J. Tassone

  • #Haiku Happenings #7: Scott Metz presents a haiku by Patrick Sweeney!

  • “Webber Park house…” a #tanka (4/23/19)

    4/23/19: returning to an old neighborhood Webber Park house the stump of the apple tree still in the backyard I remember the adage, “you can’t go home again.” #tanka #micropoetry #poetry #NaPoWriMo2019 #GloPoWriMo2019

  • Remembering Rachel

    Originally posted on Il fiume scorre ancora: Failed Haiku Feb. 2019 edited by Michael Rehling. Five poems of mine published in this lovely issue, including three haiku in memory of Rachel Sutcliffe. Thank you so much Mike🙏 and congratulations everyone. To Rachel Sutcliffe small poems the way our lives intertwined twinkle of stars your new path  brighter sunrise……

  • Today’s Haiku (April 23, 2019)

    Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 囀や一人にひとつ葡萄パン 対中いずみ saezuri ya hitori ni hitotsu budôpan             birds’ chirp—             one raisin bun             per person                                                 Izumi Tainaka from ‘Haidan,’ (‘Haiku Stage’) a monthly haiku magazine, April 2017 Issue, Honami Shoten, Tokyo Fay’s Note:  ‘saezuri’ (bird’s chirp) is a spring kigo. ?

  • a chorus – – haiku

    Originally posted on Ontheland: a chorus of frogs by a dusty road a row of catkins . . ©️2019 Ontheland

  • My Daily #Haiku (4/23/19)

    4/23/19: yearly scampering squirrels — our yearly dental visit this afternoon #haiku #micropoetry #poetry #NaPoWriMo2019 / #GloPoWriMo2019 23/30

  • fading

    Originally posted on Project words:  fading heat along the riverbank willows weep ? ? ?

  • Celebration of Blooms

    Originally posted on revivedwriter: For NaPoWriMo day 21, I am responding to this prompt from yesterday. Happy Easter! Also, I am sharing this with Frank’s  haikai prompt because 2 of these 3 haiku are about Easter lilies. Lively white lilies — On Easter morning hoping For beautiful life ? Lilies intertwine Around a wooden twig wreath:…