Author: Frank J. Tassone

  • Gaze

    Originally posted on Grahn Song: #Haiku Happenings #3: Richard Grahn’s latest #tanka #haiga! Grahn Song View original post

  • Crystal Brook

    Originally posted on Ada's Poetry Alcove (2): Carpe Diem Weekend Meditation #54 Crossroads Crystal Brook (troiku) crystal brook reflects the willow trees birds sing their song sweet perfume memories of a loved one Jasmine blossom © Yozakura along the river bank birdsong synchronized with willow tree chorus a long the river bank discards clothes flutter…

  • The Lonely Scarecrow

    Originally posted on revivedwriter: Forlorn in the field Tattered clothes, brainless scarecrow Does his job too well ? ? For this.

  • My Daily #Haiku #2 (10/15/18)

    Autumn darkness ignoring the call of the wild   #HaikuChallenge #haiku #micropoetry #poetry

  • the scarecrow: a haibun

    Originally posted on Ontheland: Five years ago I put a scarecrow up in my garden….there was no crow problem but I thought it would be a fun, perhaps practical, addition. I had a ready made t-bar on hand…it could easily wear a shirt and hat.  That was it. I added no head, stuffing, or legs (what…

  • Silence . . . (a tanka)

    Originally posted on A Poet in Time: ? One tanka published in: cattails, October 2018 Issue The Official Journal of the United Haiku and Tanka Society ? ? ? ? told not to tell or be a bother a child soon finds a world of her own silence ? ? ? In that silence, poems…

  • a silhouette stands

    Originally posted on Grahn Song: #Haiku Happenings #7: Richard Grahn’s latest #tanka #haiga! Grahn Song View original post

  • “fading light…” a #tanka (10/15/18)

    10/15/18: harvest fading light between the harvest and hunter’s moon I wait for the promised rest between fresh aches and sighs #tanka #micropoetry #poetry