Frank J. Tassone

Author: Frank J. Tassone

  • Originally posted on Puget Lines and Edges: #Haiku Happenings #11: Dave Kuhlmann’s latest #haiga! Puget Lines and Edges View original post

  • Independence Day

    Originally posted on Roth Poetry: Independence Day (a Haibun) Perhaps our understanding of freedom and independence is skewed by misguided expectations. Our Republic was founded on the principles of freedom under law. The question becomes whose freedom and whose laws. It seems that every time there is a social push for change, the ensuing freedom…

  • #Haikai Challenge #40 (6/30/18): Independence #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka #haiga #renga

      Did you manage to stay dry, haijin? Some of you embraced the rain!   Congratulations to last week’s contributors Haikai Challenge Participants  1. Ken Gierke / rivrvlogr 2. awisewomansjourney 3. Dwight L. Roth 4. Reena Saxena 5. Jules 6. Revived Writer 7. Zander 8. Janice 9. Pat R 10. Linda Lee Lyberg Powered by……

  • Slow

    Originally posted on haiku tree: the wren slow to take flight finds the wind ?

  • Asahi Haikuist Network, edited by David McMurray, June 29

    Originally posted on Il fiume scorre ancora: Really delighted to have one haiku od mine in today’s edition of Asahi Haikuist Network, edited by David McMurray. summer solstice draws the outline of my shadow * * * Eufemia Griffo Eufemia Griffo formed a silhouette in Settimo Milanese, Italy (David McMurray’s comment) http://www.asahi.com/sp/ajw/articles/AJ201806290005.html  

  • Lustre

    Lustre

    Originally posted on Haiku out of Africa: Paternoster beach ~ blue mussel shells glistening ~ in the morning sun — © Lize Bard 2 Haiku out of Africa

  • Sea Shore Encounters: a #writephoto #haibun

      The waves slap the shore again and again. White foam crests burst into sprays of saline moisture. The sporadic cry of passing terns adds a staccato harmony to the rumbling surf’s deep bass.   I sat here more than sixteen years ago–at night. The last light of the moon passed behind the gathering rainclouds…

  • Book Stuff

    Originally posted on Stella Pierides: Book Stuff: swaps, gifts, small talk is a (closed) Facebook group founded and administered by poet Gillena Cox. It is a place to highlight and share our work: whether already published or to-be-published/forthcoming. Today, I was thrilled to see Gillena’s post, reproduced here with her permission: ❧✿❧Saturday Share # 42❧✿❧…