Frank J. Tassone

Author: Frank J. Tassone

  • Salvation in Solitude

    The drone of morning traffic. The blaring of horns from stopped cars on the Interstate. The adolescent voices that echo off the walls, and their sporadic screams and laughter. The noise from the outside crests like flood waters fed by torrential downpours. It is during such onslaughts that I savor an interior silence. Give me…

  • Encounters

    Encounters

    #Haiku Happenings #9: Reena Saxena’s latest #haibun!

  • Haiku Dialogue: lost piece of clothing

    Originally posted on Martha Magenta: ? missing scarf the scarecrow’s knowing grin ? Haiku Dialogue: What’s at Hand – – a lost piece of clothing Troutswirl, The Haiku Foundation Blog 27 March 2019 https://www.thehaikufoundation.org/2019/03/27/haiku-dialogue-whats-at-hand-week-9/?fbclid=IwAR04QyCTbWIS-e6NsQVvaXKYr7d92pCqAEE4GD7ClzRqDqd6BIufa6hCh70

  • Today’s Haiku (March 27, 2019)

    Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): しやぼん玉黄泉路へ迷ひこむものも　　　伊藤伊那男 shabondama yomiji e mayoikomu mono mo             soap bubbles             some stray into             the road to Hades                                                 Inao Ito from ‘Shikajika To ’(‘Such and Such’) haiku collection by Inao Ito, Hokushinsha, Tokyo 2018 Fay’s Note:   ‘soap bubble’ is a spring kigo.

  • PSA: follower milestone (3/27/19 !

    Five-hundred (500) followers! What a milestone! And a whole year’s growth achieved in just under 6 months. I’m grateful to you all! Thank you! Spring day savoring our joy in haikai

  • Originally posted on Vento del giorno: ? cucendo l’oggi ai giorni di domani fiori di pruno sewing today to the days of tomorrow plum blossoms © A.M. ?

  • Haiga 101

    Originally posted on Michael Rehling: #Haiku Happenings #5: Michael Rehling’s latest #haiga! Michael Rehling View original post

  • headline – – haibun

    Originally posted on Ontheland: Yesterday morning a strange headline caught my attention…I checked the date…then opened the full report… . . no women’s sizes her spacewalk is cancelled is this April first? . . Inspired by this March 26 headline: “NASA cancels first all-women spacewalk due to lack of small spacesuits”. ©️2019 Ontheland