Author: Frank J. Tassone

  • Disgruntled Errand Run: a #FreestyleFriday .@ImageCurve #haibun

      Three library books with me that I don’t intend to return. Three at home that I intended to return. Credit accrued and surrendered just to return a viola. Nearly $100 for two baseball mitts. A call for a test script that comes after I walk in the front door.   And I disliked all…

  • two more haiku for summer solstice

    Originally posted on Ontheland: from a feathered friend this summer solstice morning a five note song ~ A fine fluted song musical heights match the sun on summer solstice ~ ©️2018 Ontheland Here we call June 21 the first day of summer. It turned out to be a beautiful non-humid day starting with a special…

  • At the solstice

    #Haiku Happenings #8: Being in Nature’s latest #haibun and #haiga for my current #haikai challenge!

  • What is haiku?

    Originally posted on Bill Waters ~~ Haiku: What is haiku? Here is a concise answer that I particularly like:   Originating in Japan, haiku is brief, objective and sensory – a literary snapshot of a moment in nature. Most haiku take longer to think about than to read. In this way, haiku are written not…

  • My Daily #Haiku #2 (6/22/18)

    sparrow flight the luster of fool’s goal at sunrise #haikuchallenge (luster) #haiku #micropoetry #poetry

  • Daily Haiku: June 22, 2018

    Originally posted on Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog: playing checkers . . . a black butterfly kings my opponent by Pamela A. Babusci  (USA) Mayfly, Issue #31, Summer 2001 ?

  • Windfall: Australian Haiku Issue 7

    Windfall: Australian Haiku Issue 7

    #Haiku Happenings #5: from The AHS: Windfall is open for submissions! Australian Haiku Society A reminder to Australian haiku poets that submissions to Windfall: Australian Haiku Issue 7 will be open throughout July 2018.  Please send up to six haiku relevant to the experience of urban and rural life in Australia. Observations that celebrate landform,…

  • Mare Tranquillitatis’ “Sailor’s yarn…”

    #Haiku Happenings #4: Eva Limbach’s haiku appears in Chrysanthemum! sailor’s yarn the audacity of our dreams — Read on evamaria-limbach2.blogspot.com/2018/06/blog-post_22.html