Author: Frank J. Tassone

  • September Morning: A #Haibun for #LaborDay

      Labor Day. A rare chance this summer to sleep in, since Frank had only an optional practice. Still, morning comes, and the aroma of freshly brewed coffee stirs me from sleep. Eigh hours is enough, even after a night of incessant dreams.   The sweltering heat belies the change to Autumn that will come.…

  • Come, Autumn

    Originally posted on awisewomansjourney: Frank J. Tassone Haikai Challenge #49 – Labor Day/Coming Of Autumn (risshuu) This week, write the haikai poem (haiku, senryu, haibun, tanka, haiga, renga, etc.) of your choice that states or references Labor Day AND/OR the coming of Autumn (risshuu). come, Autumn, and be hearth of nature, and human labor in…

  • September 3, 2018

    Originally posted on Ontheland: Labour Day Weekend autumn’s official kickoff on the human clock : new chapters bustle as -ember months unfurl summer may linger : ©️2018 Ontheland Haikai Challenge #49 Labor Day/Coming of Autumn

  • first and last

    #Haiku Happenings #7: Deepa’s latest haiku for my current #haikai challenge!

  • “summer’s close…”: a #tanka (9/3/18) #LaborDay

    Summer’s close cicadas still singing in this heat by this time tomorrow we’ll swelter in staff meetings

  • Labor Day

    Originally posted on revivedwriter: For Frank J. Tassone’s haikai prompt, which, this week, can be about either Labor Day or the near arrival of autumn (risshuu). This one is a tanka. School used to begin after Labor Day : now the districts cannot wait to bid students to return, to make us get back to…

  • Autumn

    Originally posted on thoughts and entanglements: in trees, suttle signs as autumn rounds the corner more visible sky Pat R 9/02/18 For Haiku Horizons where the prompt is Corner. And, coincidentally:) for Frank Tassone Haikai Challenge – referencing Autumn

  • working with honor

    Originally posted on rivrvlogr: working with honor lesson learned from a father honors tradition   This senryū is my response to Frank Tassone’s #Haikai Challenge #49: Labor Day.