Author: Frank J. Tassone

  • My Daily #Haiku (7/22/18)

    7/22/18: final final Sunday feast the smell of fresh smoke from the roaster #haiku #micropoetry #poetry #Portugal

  • #Haikai Challenge #43 (7/21/18): Afterglow (yuuyake) #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka #haiga #renga

      How are those lawns looking, haijin? Congratulations to last week’s contributors   Ultreya!   Today is our 17th wedding anniversary. (Thank you, thank you; no, really, you shouldn’t have ;)) During our wedding, I remember seeing the sky shortly after sunset. It was a true sailor’s delight, and it still carries the allure of…

  •  S.O.Briquet

    Originally posted on the other bunny: Grand rounds every Monday morning at the mission hospital, where I interned was always a holy time where we solemnly followed the Chief – a formidable Scots lady who examined every patient’s chart minutely and berated us for the smallest errors. One Monday, she noticed several patients’ charts had…

  • My Daily #Haiku (7/20/18)

    July 20: bricks Chaves’ summer breeze the long unseen brick facade of our New York house #haiku #micropoetry #poetry

  • 7.17 (s) different ‘foils’ /haikai 42 | Jules Longer Strands of Gems

    #Haikai Happenings #1 (7/20/18): Jules’ solo #renga for my current #haikai challenge! no metal blades for plant like swords piercing dry ground – after today’s rain? * unpredictable weather – drought; will some storms save our lawns * perhaps by mid-week mowers will roar throughout the quiet neighborhood ©JP/dh haikai challenge 42 cutting grasses kusakari…

  • Portugal Travel Notes #6 (7/10/18):

    Mira and I at the castle in Sortelha   The AC didn’t work. We switched to new rooms around 3:00 in the morning. The hotel didn’t charge us for three rooms, of course.   morning sun Another yawn at breakfast   Belmont. A village that boasts an historic Jewish community, with roots preceding the expulsion…

  • haiku on mowing and trimming

    Originally posted on Ontheland: Saturday July 14 Rain may fall nature has the upper hand too hot for mowing : Sunday July 15 days so hot grass doesn’t grow mower laughs : parched grass rests motionless the silent tractor : in this heat Queen Anne’s Lace soars grass crisp as straw : Monday July 16…

  • Ocean City, Maryland Chronicle, Day 2: July 5, 2014: an .@ImageCurve #haibun

    early rise first aroma of fresh-brewed coffee early beach arrival digging deep into loose sand to plant our umbrella the rattle of the chain reminds me to mind the wind searing sun roar of an incoming surf so cold to the touch step by step, his hand in mine until my face hits the sand…