Frank J. Tassone

Author: Frank J. Tassone

  • #Haikai Challenge #32 (5/5/18): twittering (saezuri,) #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka #haiga #renga

    Photo by Ryk Naves on Unsplash   Happy Cinco De Mayo, haijin! And congratulations to those of you that completed thirty poems in thirty days for April!   We entered May with a flurry of prompts, and you offered a diversity of responses. Our hat’s off to this week’s contributors:   Haikai Challenge Participants  1. Jane Dougherty 2.…

  • Haiga, Haiku & #4: Blade Stories & May NaHaiWriMo 2018

    Originally posted on A 19 Planets Art Blog 2010/2024: * leaf blade between my fingers hawk scream * for Prompt #4 NaHaiWriMo 5-4-2018 * Deborah B. Shepherd May 4 prompt: Blade *

  • Haiku windows:window cleaner

    Originally posted on Vento del giorno: cleaning clouds on the twentieth floor – head for heights ©A.M.

  • Ono no Komachi

    Originally posted on a meditative journey : While watching  the long rains falling on this world my heart, too, fades with the unseen color of the spring flowers. ~Ono no Komachi (J Hirshfield & M Aratani, The Ink Dark Moon)

  • The Untold Tale of a Staircase: a #writephoto #haibun

      Who would descend such a staircase? A Quincenara introduced to high society? A bride approaching her groom? Or an matronly host of an elite inn catering only to the jet-setting crowd? Morning light bathes the steps through east-facing windows, and a breeze rustles the translucent curtains. So just what occasion would occur on such…

  • Today’s Haiku (May 5, 2018)

    Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 蜆貝うらがへりつつ風に飛ぶ　　高橋千草 shijimigai uragaeritsutsu kaze ni tobu             being overturned             a shijimi shell flies             in the wind                                                 Chigusa Takahashi from ‘Haidan,’ (‘Haiku Stage’) a monthly haiku magazine, June 2017 Issue, Honami Shoten, Tokyo

  • Haiku

    Originally posted on Bending moments: speck of a plane soon the clouds cover the hum HSA 2017 Members’ Anthology

  • The Dawn Chorus, Tanka

    Originally posted on Yesterday and today: Merril's historical musings: Laud the dawn chorus– robin, cardinal, and wren trill night into day light streaming golden and pink as cherry blossoms in spring ? By Awesok [CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)%5D, from Wikimedia Commons ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? This tanka is for Colleen’s…