Author: Frank J. Tassone
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Prune Juice
Originally posted on Project words: Delighted to appear in the Spring issue of Prune Juice today bathroom mirror the bare face of insomnia ? life long friends the silence death leaves ? black ice how suddenly things change ? a child’s breath on the dandelion time takes flight ? school reunion we get to know each…
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Take a walk
Mira and I walk at Kakiat Park. The rain-swollen Mahwah River cascades under the bridge. It foams the rocky bank where a lone fisherman fishes. We turn onto the blue trail toward the tributary feeding the river. Or is it the river? The cold ground doesn’t mud our shoes like last time. We’re not…
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Today’s Haiku (April 30, 2018)
Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 落ちかけて日のとどまりし蕨かな 藤田湘子 ochikakete hi no todomarishi warabi kana the sun starts to sink and stops… a bracken Shoshi Fujita from “Haiku Dai-Saijiki” (“Comprehensive Haiku Saijiki”), Kadokawa Shoten, Tokyo, 2006 Fay’s Note: Shoshi Fujita (1926-2005) ‘warabi’ (bracken) is a spring kigo.
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Haiku: Highland Breeze
#Haiku Happenings #8: Xenia Tran’s latest haiku for my current #haikai challenge!
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weather erratic
Originally posted on rivrvlogr: weather erratic white narcissus late to fall cold nights lingering cherry blossoms still not here hoping for colorful spring This tanka is in response to Frank Tassone’s #Haikai Challenge #31: Osozakura – Late Cherry Blossom Image source: pixabay.com National/Global Poetry Writing Month ~ Day 30
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My Daily #Haiku #2 (4/30/18)
writer’s workshop the redundant essays of bored Juniors #haikuchallenge (redundant) #senryu #micropoetry #poetry #GloPoWriMo2018 #NaPoWriMo2018
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‘Fragments’ in Ephemerae, 26/100, #100daysnewthings
Originally posted on Stella Pierides: Fragments . In Ephemerae vol. 1, A, 2018 26/100 #The100DayProject #100daysnewthings
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The shadows of birds
Originally posted on Bill Waters ~~ Haiku: all around the sleeping cat the shadows of birds fluttering Published in Acorn: A Journal of Contemporary Haiku, spring 2018. * * * *
