Frank J. Tassone

Author: Frank J. Tassone

  • The faded notes … (two tanka)

    Originally posted on A Poet in Time: ? Ephemerae, a new journal of hakai, Volume 1A, April 2018 has just been published in the U.K. I am honored to have two tanka included in this first edition. Edited by Shrikaanth K. Murthy, there are 121 fine poets included from around the world. ? ? ?…

  • Haiku del giorno -Daily Haiku

    Originally posted on Vento del giorno: Silence in arabic calligraphy – Pinterest ? notte profonda il silenzio assorto ad ascoltarsi deep of the night  silence listening to silence ? © A.M.

  • Haigaonline Autumn 2017

    #Haiku Happenings #1 (5/11/18): Barbara Kaufman’s haiku appear in Haigaonline!

  • Essential

    ALFRED PASIEKA/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/GETTY IMAGES   “In the beginning was the word…”   Logos. The essence of consciousness, the embodied will of creative Love, from which the universe began with a Big Bang. An utterance of voice so tender and loving that potential gave birth to actual. A voice so awesomely heartbreaking, and heard now…

  • Daily Haiku: May 10, 2018

    Originally posted on Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog: cormorants . . . we open our arms to the sun ?   by Debbie Strange (Canada) Third Place Jane Reichhold International Prize, 2018 ? ?

  • Twisted in shame … (two tanka)

    Originally posted on A Poet in Time: ? ? Skylark Tanka Journal 6:1, Summer 2018: Two tanka   ? ? ? old walking stick— once it was a branch that stretched to the sky                 . . . ?   all those years spent twisted in shame –…

  • Twitter

    Originally posted on thoughts and entanglements: chorus of twitter lost in the calls of seaguls – spring evening at dusk Pat R 5/10/18 For Frank Tassone Haikai Challenge ::Twitter ?

  • #ThrowdownThursday (5/10/18): Another Mother’s Day?… my latest .@ImageCurve #haibun

    Another Mother’s Day?     Mom washed, curled, brushed and hairsprayed. Then she applied makeup and lipstick. For the first time in weeks, she looks like she always does when she goes out in public. She loses her breath rising from one chair and moving to another, despite the pulse-births of oxygen from her portable…