Author: Frank J. Tassone
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Everturning: A #haibun #Quadrille
The water cycle. The life cycle. The cycles of my mistakes. The wheel turns and turns, a child’s merry-go-round spinning too fast. The rock cycle. The universal cycle. What goes around, comes around. Solstice another turn of the seasons why can’t time stand still? For dVerse Poets’ Quadrille…
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Tanka # 149
Originally posted on Rooted in Love: From my pierced chest the days are leaking… as I walk a thin stream of clouds behind me trails ~ Light foot I travel to you wafting on the sounds of my beating heart
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haiku: old rooftiles…
Originally posted on Haiku For Living: . old rooftiles laid in sagging rows hearth and home ? ? ? ? .
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Originally posted on Puget Lines and Edges: #Haiku Happenings #10: Dave Kuhlmann’s latest #haiga! Puget Lines and Edges View original post
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“Essential” Featured in Poets United: Poems of the Week!
Thrilled to have my haibun Essential featured in Poems of the Week from Poets United! Thank you, Sherry, for the invitation and conversation! A special shout-out to Robin Kimber and Julian Clarke, whose poems are also featured! ESSENTIAL “In the beginning was the word…” Logos. The essence of consciousness, the embodied will of…
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Today’s Haiku (June 18, 2018)
Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): あぢさゐのかくも疲れし前頭葉 波戸岡 旭 ajisai no kakumo tsukareshi zentoyô hydrangea… its frontal lobe so tired Akira Hatooka from “Haiku-kai” (“Haiku World,” a monthly haiku magazine , December 2016 Issue, Bungaku No Mori, Tokyo Fay’s Note: This one is tough to translate. Japanese word after…
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Daily Haiku: June 18, 2018
Originally posted on Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog: autumn leaves in the garden a bird with no song by Barbara Tate (USA) Modern Haiku, 47.3, 2016 ?
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“Basho on Poetry: Learn from the Pine”.
Originally posted on Lady Nyo's Weblog: Basho On Poetry: Learn from the Pine – These are excerpts from a rather long document by Basho, considered to be the top haiku poet of the 17th century. I am presenting these thoughts of his because they ‘make clear and plain’ what Basho believes is the correct approach…
