Author: Frank J. Tassone

  • Otata 37, Januari 2019

    Originally posted on Vento del giorno: Prayers bead, coral and agate, 18th c India ? prayers beads — counting dreams one by one afternoon tea — the north wind gathers clouds boiled rice — the moon shines her cold light © A.M. https://otatablog.files.wordpress.com/2018/12/otata-37-January-2019.pdf

  • Hypothetical Enigmas

    A single leaf flutters across the neighbor’s yard. I see it through the reflection in the mirror facing me–the one that reveals the view through the bay window of my office. The breeze that set that leaf fluttering ceases. All is calm, but not bright as the dimming light yields to the growing afternoon shadows…

  • turning the last page ~ senryū

    Originally posted on rivrvlogr: turning the last page book closes, the next opens revealing New Year This senryū is my response to Frank Tassone’s #Haikai Challenge #67: New Year.

  • New Year Sky: Haiku

    Originally posted on kanzen sakura: copyright kanzensakura  新年の空Shin’nen no sora new year sky – cloud paths lead in many directions – our choice where we go   HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU ALL!  PEACE, JOY, AND HOPE FOR YOU AND ALL YOU HOLD DEAR.  

  • January First

    Originally posted on revivedwriter: For Frank Tassone’s haikai prompt about the New Year.  image from Google Janus is two-faced : Looking backward and forward Time pulls him onward ?

  • “first light…” a #tanka (1/1/19)

    1/1/19: prompt free first light from the breaking dawn of New Years Day raised cups for auld ang syne quietly put away #tanka #micropoetry #poetry

  • Today’s Haiku (January 1, 2019)

    Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 海よりの風の匂へる初明り  稲畑汀子 umi yori no kaze no nioeru hatsuakari             scent of the wind             from the sea             first light of the year                                                 Teiko Inahata from ‘Haidan,’ (‘Haiku Stage’) a monthly haiku magazine, January 2016  ssue, Honami Shoten, Tokyo

  • Daily Haiku: Jan. 1, 2019

    Originally posted on Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog: giving a piece of cardboard a bit of life our cat ? by Tom Clausen  (USA) Frogpond, Vol. 41:3 , Fall 2018