Author: Frank J. Tassone

  • Haiku: Ring of Light

    #Haiku Happenings #4: Xenia Tran’s latest haiku!

  • My Daily #Haiku (5/22/18)

    5/22/18: ice skylark song — our walk on the ice this past winter #haiku #micropoetry #poetry

  • Nicholas Klacsanzky’s Ant

    Originally posted on Haiku Commentary: the ant wanders across the floor . . . meditation room Akitsu Quarterly, Summer issue, 2017 © Nicholas Klacsanzky (Ukraine) We have a father-son team this time with Mark Salzer (father) and Jacob Salzer (son): Shenzhen has over 14 million people, and from a high rise building, appear as ants…

  • Haiku del giorno – Daily haiku

    Originally posted on Vento del giorno: Hiroshige Utagawa. black hills – the moon above listening nere colline – e lassù quella luna sola in ascolto © A.M.

  • Passing #midnighthaiku

    Originally posted on Sue Vincent's Daily Echo: Past creates future In the heart of the first rose Petals unfurling For Frank J. Tassone’s Haikai Challenge

  • Sudden Downpour: A #writephoto #quadrille #haibun

      The rain fell unexpectedly. The tumultuous gray had so quickly gathered that we had no time to turn back. A welcoming row of entwining trees offered us a welcome shelter. We rested our bikes and waited.   emerging sun the flanders country ride soon resumes     for dVerse Poets’ Quadrille #57 – Don’t…

  • I, Cuchulainn

    By Stephen Reid (Eleanor Hull, The Boys’ Cuchulain) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons   I, tied to a post, await them, my enemies who’ve killed me at last. I’ll stand my ground against them to the end. Not much longer, now. My blood-stained blade, heavy in my hand one last time. My torn tunic saturated…

  • Beneath the Sky, Reflections (haibun)

    Originally posted on Grahn Song: It’s quiet here. The sky is cloudless. A moth flutters on the most subtle of breezes. There’s barely a ripple on the water. If reflections could speak, they would speak of silence, of harmony and of deep introspection. Locked in the aquatic mirror, a world of wonder stands fully exposed…