Author: Frank J. Tassone

  • Sense of Place – Smell

    Originally posted on petrujviljoen: Thrilled The Haiku Foundation published my haiku: groundswell on the mountain – petrichor Following are the others I submitted: spring greening mountain slopes scent of life rounding the mountain leaving the trodden hikers’ trail – wafts of weeping sage Breaths of early mountain; earthed heaven accommodating spirit nostrils flare with the…

  • “Sweltering Heat…”: A #tanka (8/29/18)

          sweltering heat the doctor-ordered tai chi still undone the lure of a verdant lawn I continue to ignore      

  • family album…

    #Haiku Happenings #6: Tia Haynes’ haiku appears in Stardust!

  • Daily Haiku: Aug. 29, 2018

    Originally posted on Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog: rainbow flash a kingfisher swoops on its prey by Kohana (Marta Chocilowska), Poland Asahi Haikuist Network, March 20, 2015 ?

  • Prevailed Love

    Originally posted on awisewomansjourney: Frank J. Tassone Haikai Challenge #48 – Causes This week, think of a cause. It could be anything. Write your haikai poem (haiku, senryu, haibun, tanka, haiga, renga, etc.) referencing or alluding to that cause. a cause for others instead of cause for oneself love has prevailed Photo Credit:  Pinterest

  • My Daily #Haiku (8/29/18)

    8/29/18: idol not missing American Idol — bowed begonia #haiku #micropoetry #poetry

  • Today’s Haiku (August 29, 2018)

    Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): どの人もすこし不幸や祭笛    大牧 広 dono hito mo sukoshi fukô ya matsuribune             everyone is             unhappy a little bit—             festival flute                                                 Hiroshi Ohmaki from ‘Haidan,’ (‘Haiku Stage’) a monthly haiku magazine, July 2017 Issue, Honami Shoten, Tokyo

  • Haiga, Haiku & #28: Ablaze Stories & August NaHaiWriMo 2018

    Originally posted on A 19 Planets Art Blog 2010/2024: * dusk ablaze summer leaves in wind * for #28 NaHaiWriMo 8-28-2018 * Karla Decker August 28 – ablaze *