Author: Frank J. Tassone

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    #Haiku Happenings #6: Tia Haynes’ latest haiku appears in Hedgerow!

  • 稲美里佳の短歌:Tanka by Rika Inami (10)

    Originally posted on Akita International Haiku Network: ? ? ? ? ※ 写真は秋田県仙北市刺巻湿原の水芭蕉群生地で撮りました。 About the photo, it is Mizubasho, which is called Skunk Cabbage in English. I use its Japanese name, Mizubasho.  I took the photo at Sashimaki Moor Mizubasho Colony, Senboku City, Akita, Japan. ? ? ? ? ※ 秋田県仙北市刺巻湿原では水芭蕉の他にザゼンソウも咲いていました。 座禅草という名前は僧侶が座禅を組む姿に似ているから付けられたそうです。 ザゼンソウの別名は達磨草(ダルマソウ)です。 Zazenso is also…

  • Haiku: Colours of the Sea

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

  • My Daily #Haiku (5/12/18)

    5/12/18: bell wet grass … exposed in the sudden rain “For Whom the Bell Tolls” #haiku #micropoetry #poetry

  • #123—the spring print issue is here!

    Originally posted on hedgerow: a journal of small poems: hedgerow #123, the first issue of the year, is finally out! It was a great joy working on this issue. Thanks to contributors & readers alike. I look forward to reading your submissions for the summer edition (deadline end of July).  On a different note—the online journal vines…

  • Tanka # 134

    Originally posted on Rooted in Love: Inside a world of silence this poetry I keep writing while I wait for you— yet tonight, as always, I am alone with the wind.

  • Daily Haiku: May 12, 2018

    Originally posted on Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog: fountain plume on the boy’s tongue a rainbow ? ? by Alegria Imperial (Canada) Mayfly, #64, 2018 ? ?

  • Osiarian Relics: A #FreestyleFriday (5/11/18) #writephoto #haibun

        See where standing stones fell. Witness the last embrace of Earth by two fallen Tuatha De Danann. Shed your tears on their cold granite corpses, sheltered by some cosp of oak and maple. Nothing more can you hope to do for them, you sons and daughters of Celts. Your ancestors hungered for new…