Author: Frank J. Tassone
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The Message of Hiroshima Day
Hiroshima Peace Memorial Ceremony & Peace Message Lantern Floating Ceremony I watched the Gozilla movies the day after Thanksgiving when I was growing up. The inconic road, the atomic fire, the wanton destruction of Tokyo or other monster: I lapped it all up. Caught up in my joy, I never understood then what…
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My Daily #Haiku (8/5/18)
8/5/18: earth Earth Day ‘90 the music of the Wailers without Bob Marley #haiku #micropoetry #poetry
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Reflections on the August long weekend (Ontario)
Originally posted on Ontheland: The long weekend, a time to get away, to wait for hours in lines of traffic from Friday afternoon to Saturday morning and again from Monday afternoon until late evening, bumper to bumper in August heat. Campgrounds are filled to capacity with people and noise all day and much of the…
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Real Vacation
#Haiku Happenings #2: Reena’s latest #haibun for my current #haikai challenge!
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Holiday Dreaming – Renga Poem
Originally posted on awisewomansjourney: Frank J. Tassone Haikai Challenge #45 – Vacation/Holiday What is your ideal vacation? Now is your chance to wax poetic about it, in the haikai style to which we have all become accustomed. This week, write your haikai poem (haiku, senryu, haibun, tanka, haiga, renga, etc.) that states or alludes to…
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My Daily #Haiku (8/5/18)
8/5/18: earth Earth Day ‘90 the music of the Wailers without Bob Marley #haiku #micropoetry #poetry
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Pathway: A #writephoto #haibun
It’s like any other walk through the woods. Light from a westward sun attempts to breach the canopy. It succeeds only in scattering illumination and shadow on the dirt path under our feet. The full fragrance of forest envelops us: Pine, Maple, Chestnut, Oak. Everywhere, the competing songs of robins, sparrows and Jays. …
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in tow
Originally posted on Ontheland: my life a wake behind father’s boat free yet in tow ~ in tow, traversing glass, crisp ruffles, rough whitecaps a capricious landscape when I fall or let go the boat will return ~ ©️2018 Ontheland Carpe Diem Summer Retreat 2018, Finding the Way, July 15 to August 14