Author: Frank J. Tassone

  • My Daily #Haiku (3/7/18)

    3/7/18: once snow-filled yard — “Once Upon a Time” plays for someone else #haiku #micropoetry #poetry

  • 1664

    Originally posted on feathers: ? ? bare branches —there were birds hereonce ? ? once — I’m prompting this month for NaHaiWriMo, on Facebook. Join us!

  • faster

    Originally posted on Project words: ? faster than the falling snow sledges down the hill ? ? ? ?

  • Zdravko Kurnik’s Clear Night

    Originally posted on Haiku Commentary: In the clear night a fisherman pulls in a net filled with stars. © Zdravko Kurnik (Croatia) (1937 – 2010) This haiku showcases the precept “as above, so below” which was first laid out in the Emerald Tablet of Hermes Trismegistus. The stars not only rest in the sky, but…

  • haiku: storm-rip…

    Originally posted on Haiku For Living: . storm-rip torn boughs jag askew the spell-struck wood ? ? ? ? .

  • International Women’s Haiku Festival: Two Haiku by Lee Nash

    Photo: Joe Shlabotnik/Creative Commons/Flickr A kept woman and a white wedding dress find their way into two insightful haiku by Lee Nash. sugar daddy the acrid sting of his tobacco The kept woman. Wouldn’t it be nice, the idea goes, if a man could provide a woman everything she needs, or – better yet –…

  • An overlong meeting (3/6/18)…

    …prevents me from posting my usual #tankaprose this evening. Expect it sometime tomorrow. Who knew a school board meeting could run n three hours? 😆 first snowfall from the next Nor’easter the day’s fatigue

  • A Love Token: a #tankaprose… #haiku #haibun #tanka

    Photo by Carlos Quintero on Unsplash   you revive all my words of love from our green moments a present you present me one bright afternoon   There they are. Every verse I ever wrote, on every card I ever gave. All typed in Times-New Roman font in a word file. You print me the file you created…