Author: Frank J. Tassone
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Factory Town
Originally posted on erbiage: since the 1760’s they’ve been working iron on this spot, but unlike most historical spots, they still are doing it here. The factory has changed over and over again, buildings torn down and raised, ponds dug and filled in. There is an old stone wall in the woods, railway grades, abandoned…
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Late Morning Drool
Originally posted on Thoughts of Words: This transient period between the morning and the noon is the laziest one. The vehicles that have been honking, since morning, rather blurting out their heart screaming their mechanical nasal warning (or distress) shrilled sound, now seems to be tired. The office-goers that are going now seems to be…
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A Haibun
Originally posted on thoughts and entanglements: Not sure what’s going on with me on the inside. Whatever it is, its not truly bubbling up to the surface. It’s lurking deep within. Every now and then I get snatches of it. It feels like shades of blue. On this spring day, winter lingers. The kid-musician down…
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#Throwdown Thursday (4/12/18): Shepherd’s Call…my latest #haibun on .@ImageCurve
Shepherd’s Call Each year, The Catholic Church celebrates Christ the Good Shepherd. A common Gospel reading for that Sunday Liturgy is the Gospel of John, in which Jesus Christ calls himself “the good Shepherd.” (John 10: 14) and says that his sheep “hear my voice.” (John 10:27) What do I hear? The tweets,…
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To Sing – One-bun Poem
Originally posted on awisewomansjourney: The one-bun is an ultra-short haibun which has just one line of prose (including the title) and a (one-line) haiku. To sing in the midst of the volcano’s vortex is the power… to dispel the winds disharmony Photo Credit: BON VITA
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In the City – NaPoWriMo 2018 Day 12
Originally posted on like mercury colliding…: I am a windy city, mid-westerner transplanted in this land of giants, a southern city nestled between looming blue mountain peaks. My home sits under a giant star on a century-old plot steps away from the site of World War victory gardens that have sprouted rows of two-storied townhouses.…
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Today’s Haiku (April 12, 2018)
Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): ケータイに詫びる男や蜷の道 小川軽舟 keitai ni wabiru otoko ya nina no michi a man apologizing to his mobile phone— a road with spiral shells Keishu Ogawa from ‘Haiku,’ a monthly haiku magazine, May 2017 Issue, Kabushiki Kaisha Kadokawa, Tokyo
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My Daily #Haiku (4/12/18)
4/12/18: garden(s) morning light in the bare garden beds deer tracks #haiku #micropoetry #poetry #GloPoWriMo2018 #NaPoWriMo201812/30
