Author: Frank J. Tassone

  • Cattails

    Originally posted on Project words: Very pleased to appear in the senryu and haiku sections of the April 2018 issue of Cattails now taller than your headstone our rose bush bitter lemon I swallow my words loan application I borrow the bank’s gold pen Rachel Sutcliffe Cattails April 2018 http://www.cattailsjournal.com/currentissue.html

  • My Daily #Haiku (4/3/18)

    4/3/18: empty her yellow tulips listening to an empty bell #haiku #micropoetry #poetry #NaPoWriMo 3/30 #GloMoWriMo2018

  • Haiku del giorno – Daily haiku

    Originally posted on Vento del giorno: Vincent van Gogh ? oltre la siepe – quando la primavera profuma il cielo beyond the edge – when the spring scents the sky © A.M. ?

  • fallen cherry blossoms

    fallen cherry blossoms

    Originally posted on 日本文化の愛 Nipponbunka no ai: 花ちりて木間の寺と成にけり hana chirite ko no ma no tera to narinikeri With the flowers fallen All evergreen has this temple Become. -Yosa Buson ? Art by Tatsumi Shimura

  • Revise that haiku

    Originally posted on Ontheland: In response to Carpe Diem Weekend Meditation #26 Revise that Haiku Taneda Santoka, known for ‘free verse haiku’, was part of an early-twentieth century trend in Japan that explored free-form haiku composed without traditions such as the 5-7-5 syllabic rule and the seasonal word. In his later years Santoka became a…

  • Haiga, Haiku & #3: Empty Stories & April NaHaiWriMo 2018

    Originally posted on A 19 Planets Art Blog 2010/2024: * empty road to the horizon still full of sky * empty doorway over the mountain pass i enter another world * for Prompt #3 NaHaiWriMo 4-3-2018 * Lynne Jambor April 3 EMPTY *

  • Haibun: Every Faith

    #Haiku Happenings #2: Xenia Tran’s latest #haibun for #dversepoets!

  • brilliant azalea

    Originally posted on rivrvlogr: brilliant azalea calling out with its color reminder of home Frank Tassone’s #Haikai Challenge #27: Azalea (In Chinese culture, the azalea is known as “thinking of home bush”) Image source: wikimedia.org (edited here) National/Global Poetry Writing Month ~ Day 3