Author: Frank J. Tassone

  • #Haikai Challenge #55 (10/13/18): scarecrow (kakashi) #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka #haiga #renga

     Public Domain, Link   How did you enjoy the flight of our feathered friends, haijin? More than a few of you clearly did. Congratulations to last week’s contributors:   Haikai Challenge Participants  1. Ken Gierke / rivrvlogr 2. Dwight L. Roth 3. Helene Vaillant 4. Reena Saxena 5. Janice 6. Revived Writer 7. Jules @…

  • largess, senryu

    Originally posted on Art Practitioner: reading margin notes return to see the habit old books nourish c. Lemuel 11 October 2018

  • monarch flying free ~ soliloquy no renga

    Originally posted on rivrvlogr: Well into retirement, my life took a new direction when I moved half-way across the country to be with someone special. Perhaps that is reflected in my response to the challenge for Carpe Diem #1519 Junicho, the twelve stanza renga (Soliloquy No Renga), which is to write a solo renga. Junicho…

  • Originally posted on Puget Lines and Edges: #Haiku Happenings #7: Dave Kuhlmann’s latest #haiga! Puget Lines and Edges View original post

  • A Prairie’s Soliloquy: a #writephoto #haibun (10/13/2018)

      I am the desert wearing withered grass. You have sought to tame me time and again. Bring your livestock to graze. Clear my native flora for your wheat fields. And time and again, I have proven how wild I remain. The scouring winds delight to play across my arid beard, and see how they…

  • Today’s Haiku (October 13, 2018)

    Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 指ふれしところ見えねど桃腐る   津田清子 yubi fureshi tokoro mienedo momo kusaru I cannot see a spot where my fingers touched it… a peach rots                                     Kiyoko Tsuda from “Haiku Dai-Saijiki” (“Comprehensive Haiku Saijiki”), Kadokawa Shoten, Tokyo, 2006

  • Daily Haiku: Oct. 13, 2018

    Originally posted on Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog: icy wind pinwheels spin at the child’s grave   by Ce Rosenow (USA) Frogpond, Vol. 36:1, 2013   ?

  • shadow: haiku

    Originally posted on Ontheland: tailgating a shadow car driving west at sunrise : our backs face the sun entering a new day : shadow is near as we move onward a matter of time : ©️2018 Ontheland Photo credit: Pexels on Pixabay