Author: Frank J. Tassone

  • Some fascinating new work from Karla Linn Merrifield: Haiga

    Originally posted on Miriam's Well: Poetry, Land Art, and Beyond: Click to enlarge The painting is in the public domain per https://www.wikiart.org/en/john-french-sloan/the-cot-1907. The poetry/art piece is titled: “SHN #14 – “The Cot / “Satin.” Karla Linn Merrifield says “In early June an acquaintance of mine who’s an eminence gris is the arts community, inadvertently introduced…

  • Tanka: Creating Memories

    #Haiku Happenings #1 (8/2/18): Xenia Tran’s latest #tanka!

  • A Domestic Disturbance: A #TankaTuesday (7/31/18) #2 #tanka

    Photo by Abigail Lynn on Unsplash     woodchuck burrow the ransacked vegtables in the garden it participates in grooming successors to pillage on   for Kiwinana’s #Weekly Tanka Prompt #Poetry Challenge – Week 107 – Participate & Grooming      

  • Haiga, Haiku & #30: Unsung Stories & July NaHaiWriMo 2018

    Originally posted on A 19 Planets Art Blog 2010/2024: unsung the crunch of gravel under my feet * for #30 NaHaiWriMo 7-30-2018 * Roy Kindelberger 30: Unsung *

  • Dream Puzzles: Haibun Quadrille

    Originally posted on Yesterday and today: Merril's historical musings: I dream of huge white blossoms flaming and shooting off petals into the sky, turning it dark with flowery ash. Wondrous and a bit terrifying, this puzzle of my mind. ? Moon silvers the trees, green leaves pale in midnight glow— dreams waiting to bloom ?…

  • Glow

    Originally posted on haiku tree: early morning street lamps glow flicker to sleep ?

  • Conflicting Silence: A #TankaTuesday (7/31/18) #TankaProse

      The sun tries to break through. The clouds that gathered will not scatter. A temperature more consistent with spring than summer holds steady. It was perfect weather to repair the paver stones on the front stoop, or write outside all morning. I did neither, becoming lost in folly on the internet.   And so…

  • Tanka Tuesday: Happy & Morose

    Originally posted on Jane Dougherty Writes: For Colleen’s Tanka Tuesday challenge, a tanka, with all the syllables. Don’t know why, but that’s how it fell out. ? contentment lies here in pools of shade pools of sun pools where stream water glitters with mirror fish scales though the sky is pewter dull