Author: Frank J. Tassone

  • lake

    Originally posted on Project words: lake ripples I pick my moment carefully ? ? ? ?

  • Cool Morning

    #Haiku Happenings #1 (3/23/18): Barbara Kaufmann’s latest #tanka appears in Skylark!

  • #Throwdown Thursday (3/22/18): A Shattering Truth

    A Shattering Truth BY FRANK J. TASSONE · 22ND MARCH 2018   You and Dad tried to conceive for twelve years before you decided to adopt. You told me that story often enough: how I grabbed your pinky when you visited candidate babies, and you knew I was the one. But what happened when Robert was born? He…

  • My Daily #Haiku #2

    classic rock channel my teenage music hits make its play list #haikuchallenge (classic) #haiku #senryu #micropoetry #poetry

  • Writing poetry

    #Haiku Happenings #10: Suzanne’s latest #haibun for #dversepoets!

  • Echoes

    Originally posted on Ontheland: When I am challenged to revise a haiku, my reading slows and I perceive several possible meanings…. in the moonlight, the color and scent of the wisteria seems far away © Yosa Buson (1716-1784) ~ this pale winter night fragrant colours of spring seem so far away ©️2018 Ontheland ~ a…

  • International Women’s Haiku Festival: Two Poems by Valorie Broadhurst Woerdehoff

    Photo: Chris Staley/Creative Commons/Flickr Mama’s new pair of shoes and Daddy’s obituary star in two poems by U.S. poet Valorie Broadhurst Woerdehoff. new stilettos she announces her divorce And there she is with her new stilettos, with her new-found independence, with all the concomitant fears and regrets and scars and, unless she’s some kind of…

  • Don’t

    Originally posted on haiku tree: a moonless sky I should miss you but I don’t ?