Author: Frank J. Tassone

  • Haiku: October Swans

    #Haiku Happenings #1 (10/6/18): Xenia Tran’s latest haiku for my current #haikai challenge!

  • Today’s Haiku (October 5, 2018)

    Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): とんぼうに叩かれてまた水眠る  堀切克洋 tombô ni tatakarete mata mizu nemuru             hit by a dragonfly             the water sleeps             again                                                 Katsuhiro Horikiri from “Shakutori no Michi” (Inchworm Road), haiku collection of Katsuhiro Horikiri, Bungaku no Mori, Tokyo 2018

  • Haiku – Bonsai

    Originally posted on Martha Magenta: ? ghost moon the wind rocks her empty chair ? fluttering sparrow the last leaf falls to the ground ? Bonsai, A Journal of Haiku and Other Small Poems, 5 October 2018 https://the13alphabet.files.wordpress.com/2018/10/bj-issue-02.pdf

  • Softly in the Rain

    Originally posted on Grahn Song: Johanna had this cute pigeon-toed walk that made her butt sway like a sailor who’s been a little too long in port or in the port (depending on how you want to look at it). She had long-flowing, wavy, black hair that tantalized my fingers and tickled my nose. She…

  • My Daily #Haiku (10/5/18)

    10/5/18: snap poetry slam … a roomfull of snaps for that one line #haiku #senryu #poetry #micropoetry #poetry

  • Haiga, Haiku & #4: Yelp Stories & October NaHaiWriMo 2018

    Originally posted on A 19 Planets Art Blog 2010/2024: * garbage truck backing with beeps dog yelp * For #4 NaHaiWriMo 10-4-2018 * Prompt By Corine Timmer October 4: yelp *

  • A sense of place: meadows/field – smell

    Originally posted on Vento del giorno: Pinterest grammy’s drawer – letters smell of Provencal fields Anna Maria Domburg-Sancristoforo

  • A Flash

    #Haiku Happenings #1 (10/5/18): Barbara Kaufmann’s latest haiku appears in THF’s A Sense of Place!