Author: Frank J. Tassone

  • Daily Haiku: April 14, 2018

    Originally posted on Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog: quiet graveyard warm breeze and an end to alphabetic order by LeRoy Gorman (Canada) Modern Haiku, Vol. XXXI, No. 2, Summer 2000 ?

  • first blossoms

    Originally posted on a poem in my pocket: Join Frank Tassone‘s haiku challenge… ? cherry trees will bud float like soft pink petal clouds hatsu hana spring

  • Release

    Release

    Originally posted on Haiku out of Africa: finding dragonflies ~ chasing our dreams together ~ then letting them go — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

  • My Daily #Haiku (4/14/18)

    4/14/18: persimmon dawn birdsongs a burnt tongue after a sip of persimmon tea #haiku #micropoetry #poetry #glopowrimo2018 #napowrimo2018

  • haiku: winter grey…

    Originally posted on Haiku For Living: . winter grey a pigeon blunders in matted twigs ? ? ? ? .

  • Bamboo Hut

    Originally posted on Project words: Delighted to appear in the new issue of Bamboo Hut today ! ? funeral home my hand on hers one last time ? a bare bulb above the unmade bed this silence ? origami class I fold up my tension ? pavement puddles the toddler meets his upside down self…

  • Haiku windows, edited by kjmunroe, is open! (Outhouse window).

    Originally posted on Il fiume scorre ancora: ? outhouse window cherry blossom rain over the roof ~ Eufemia Griffo https://www.thehaikufoundation.org/2018/04/11/haiku-windows-outhouse-window/

  • A Haikai Ars Poetica

      The tai chi windchime’s melody plays without ceasing. Spindly, naked branches atop towering locus trees sway. Grasshoppers chirp in a choral counterpoint to the bass drone of the Friday evening rush-hour. Shrivelled, potted daffidils bathe in the late afternoon sun. A hawk soars in a tight circle high above the tallest Locus. The warmest…