Author: Frank J. Tassone

  • Memorial Stone: A .@ImageCurve #haibun

    Mom and I see the headstone. Salmon, just as we chose. Smooth on top and along the sides, it emerges from a rough base of the same hue. Scattered grass grows on the flattened earth six feet in front of it. We remove the in-ground matching vases. Struggle to insert the simple bouquets we bought…

  • Today’s Haiku (November 13, 2018)

    Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 秋風鈴忘れ上手に生きてをり  渡井恵子 akifûrin wasurejyôzu ni ikiteori             autumn wind chime             it is good at forgetting             and continues to live                                                             Shigeko Watai from ‘Haidan,’ (‘Haiku Stage’) a monthly haiku magazine, September 2017 Issue, Honami Shoten, Tokyo

  • Obelisk

    Originally posted on Grahn Song: So pleased to have this tanka included in the Winter 2018 issue of Skylark. Thank you Claire Everett. the obelisk stands in sharp contrast to the many weary pilgrims gathered in its shadow waiting on their knees Skylark — Issue 12 (6.2)

  • Haiku: Twilight

    #Haiku Happenings #4: Xenia Tran’s latest haiku!

  • My Daily #Haiku (11/13/18)

    11/13/18: wakefulness awakening to a rattle of raindrops November morning #haiku #micropoetry #poetry

  • under lightning skies ~ fusion haiku

    Originally posted on rivrvlogr: under lightning skies feel your touch like cricket chirps soft as warm night rain The challenge for Carpe Diem #1542 Cricket is to write a fusion haiku inspired by the following two haiku by Jane Reichhold. lightning flash into the sound of rain a cricket shrills nights where you touched me…

  • Daily Haiku: Nov. 13, 2018

    Originally posted on Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog: senryu   graveside mother would have hated this waste of roses   by Barbara Kaufmann  (USA) Acorn, No. 37, Fall 2016

  • Haiku del giorno – Daily haiku

    Originally posted on Vento del giorno: Laura Sheridan Photography all the flowers in my dreams today cactus thorns tutti i fiori oggi nei miei sogni spine di cactus © A.M.