Author: Frank J. Tassone

  • Sensual Aftermath – A Renga

    #Haiku Happenings #1 (12/4/18): Gina presents a #renga by the writers anonymous collaborative!

  • Cheering Down the Darkness: a #Quadrille #haibun

      So little to celebrate. Raging wildfires. Persecuted refugees. Genocidal shootings.  A hate-frothing darkness threatens to swallow all. For what can we cheer?   That light shines in the darkness. That Love drives out hate. That we can.   Holy Days another lit candle piercing the gloom       for dVerse Poets’ Quadrille #70: Poems…

  • Haiku: Happiness

    #Haiku Happenings #9: Xenia Tran’s latest haiku!

  • Haibun: The Blizzard of Hate

    Originally posted on kanzen sakura: A habun for De’s Quadrille today at dVerse Poets Pub. A quadrille is a poem in any form of exactly 44 words using the prompted word. Today the word is “cheer”. It must be used in any form of cheer within the Quadrille. With the re-emergence of Anti-Semitism it is…

  • Aviary

    Originally posted on Grahn Song: The eight-year-old boy can’t reach the first branch of the largest of a pair of Maples in the front yard so he settles for the lowest branch of the smaller tree. He easily pulls himself up into the first crotch and pauses there, planning his route to the top of…

  • “Already…” a #tanka (12/3/18)

    12/3/18: prompt free already the house decorated for Christmas the beginning of December the calm before the storm #tanka #micropoetry #poetry

  • Sun-kissed

    #Haiku Happenings #6: Barbara Kaufmann’s latest #haiga appears in Prune Juice!

  • s 12.3 united / haikai 63/ solo renga | Jules Longer Strands of Gems

    #Haiku Happenings #5: Jules’ latest solo #renga for my current #haikai challenge! united daily positive re-dedication to do all that is for good bringing, singing light; overcome that darkness which weighs heavy all that is good every human heart, open; rejoice together ©J/h haikai 63 This week, write the haikai poem (haiku, senryu, haibun, tanka,…