Frank J. Tassone

Author: Frank J. Tassone

  • My Daily #Haiku (4/1/19)

    4/1/19: arms-length April Fool’s Day I keep all of the jokes at arms-length #haiku #senryu #micropoetry #poetry #NaPoWriMo2019 1/30 #GloPoWriMo2019

  • #Haikai Challenge #79 (3/30/19): twittering (saezuri) #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka #haiga #renga

    #Haiku Happenings #3: Tessa’s latest haiku for my current #haikai challenge!

  • Meditation

    Meditation

    #Haiku Happenings #2: Reena Saxena’s latest #tanka for my current #haikai challenge!

  • unwelcome diner ~ haiku

    Originally posted on rivrvlogr: unwelcome diner squirrel invades bird feeder swallows twittering My haiku is  a response to Frank Tassone’s #Haikai Challenge #79: twittering. ?

  • Enlightenment: a #writephoto #haibun

    Get up. Step out from the shadows. Did I pierce the veil to address an undergrowth bathed in shade? Come, and bear witness to the light! You thought you were abandoned, left “alone and naked in the wilderness.” You shuddered to think as the darkness crept in. You stole glimpses of declining daylight from the…

  • #Haikai Challenge #79 (3/30/19): twittering (saezuri) #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka #haiga #renga

    It’s great to see how many of you enjoyed the swallow, haijin! Congratulations to last week’s contributors: Haikai Challenge Participants 1. Ken Gierke / rivrvlogr2. Dwight L. Roth3. Tessa4. Jane Dougherty5. Reena Saxena 6. The Dark Netizen7. Xenia Tran8. Janice9. Jules @ fiction10. Xenia Tran (2) 11. Helene Vaillant12. ennle madresan13. Revived Writer14. Jim Feeney…

  • Tanka by Chen-ou Liu in Canada (2)

    Originally posted on Akita International Haiku Network: On October 30, 2010, Tanka by Chen-ou Liu in Canada (1) was updated on the website below. https://akitahaiku.com/2010/10/30/ On December 23, 2018, Chen-ou Liu presented tanka, haiku, and senryu with his short bio and his recent photo, wishing us all the best in the coming year. Here is…

  • Today’s Haiku (March 30, 2019)

    Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 白鳥の引きし茂吉の山河かな　　　片山由美子 hakuchô no hikishi mokichi no sanga kana             swans returned north             these mountains and rivers             of Mokichi’s land                                                 Yumiko Katayama from “Haiku Dai-Saijiki” (“Comprehensive Haiku Saijiki”), Kadokawa Shoten, Tokyo, 2006 Fay’s Note:  Mokichi Saito (1882-1953) is one of the prominent tanka…