Author: Frank J. Tassone
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Daily Haiku: Oct. 19, 2018
Originally posted on Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog: uncle’s wake a lottery ticket in his patch pocket by Tom Painting (USA) bottle rockets, No. 33, 2015
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deep
Originally posted on Project words: deep darkness swallowing the last silhouette ? ? ?
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Scarecrow Joins the Circle Dance
Originally posted on method two madness: Autumn. I fall into disrepair. The sky still covers me, but my shadow dissolves into the remains of the golden ocean that heretofore eddied and flowed at my feet. My skin lies ragged, unfilled. I was crowned, once, with dark discordant ornaments. They sit on other thrones now, unrepentant…
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First Contact: A #TBT (10/18/18) #haibun featuring my latest from .@ImageCurve
Lynn’s “a” looks like mine. I hesitate for a second, pray, then open the envelop. Inside lies a folded card with artwork from the Met. Her handwritten message—written right-side to left—begins by thanking me for my “kindness.” Next, she comments on my “enlightened parents” and the importance of “good nurturing.” Then she asks about my…
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Thick Skull
Originally posted on thoughts and entanglements: Mother Bea, sits in her wooden rocking chair on the rickety varandah. She is placed there every morning. She does not walk. She must be over 80 years old. Even her kids were old. When you are little, everybody is old! I watch her as she watch the daily…
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rainbow in motion ~ haiku
Originally posted on rivrvlogr: rainbow in motion back and forth between the reeds dragonfly here, gone Carpe Diem #1525 Perpetuum Mobile … everlasting movement (“undou”) Images Museum of Fine Arts Boston Dragonflies and Pampas Grass, by Utagawa Yoshimori Dragonfly on the Moreau River, Missouri (photo)
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Today’s Haiku (October 18, 2018)
Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): かぜやみて月の林となりにけり しなだしん kaze yamite tsuki no hayashi to narinikeri wind dies it becomes a moon grove Shin Shinada from ‘Hayabusa no Mune’ (‘Falcon’s Chest’) haiku collection by Shin Shinada, Fusansu-Do, Tokyo 2011
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“Shimmering heat…” a #tanka (10/18/18)
10/18/18: Goya shimmering heat at the Prada before Goya’s 3rd of May all of the years making the same mistakes #tanka #micropoetry #poetry