Author: Frank J. Tassone

  • #Haikai Challenge #23 (3/3/18): first spring gust (haru ichiban) #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka #renga #haiga

    By The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (https://cdn.star.nesdis.noaa.gov) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons   Welcome back, haijin! Many of you risked whiplash contemplating this Spring-winter-spring season we’re experiencing, especially in the Northeastern US. Here’s who shared: Haikai Challenge Participants  1. Ken Gierke / rivrvlogr 2. Jane Dougherty 3. KanzenToni 4. KanzenToni 5. Victoria Slotto 6.…

  • Footsteps

    Originally posted on Bill Waters ~~ Haiku: By Bill Waters (poem) and Robin White (Photo) Published in Vines (https://hedgerowpoems.files.wordpress.com/2018/03/vines-live.pdf), 3/2/18. About Robin White: —> http://haiku.mannlib.cornell.edu/category/author/robin-white/page/3/ *    *    *    *

  • Today’s Haiku (March 3, 2018)

    Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 厨房に貝があるくよ雛祭   秋元不死男 chûbô ni kai ga aruku yo hinamatsuri             a shell walks             in the kitchen—             Hina Doll Festival                                                 Fujio Akimoto from “Haiku Dai-Saijiki” (“Comprehensive Haiku Saijiki”), Kadokawa Shoten, Tokyo, 2006 Fay’s Note:  Fujio Akimoto (1901-1977)   ‘Hina Doll Festival’ is on March 3.

  • Dark Shadows

    #Haiku Happenings #13: Barbara Kaufman’s #haiga!

  • Haiku # 560

    Originally posted on Rooted in Love: In this beautiful world turning and turning towards the final letting go ~ What shall become of me? – dust upon dust rising to the stars

  • haiku: black-faced sheep…

    Originally posted on Haiku For Living: . black-faced sheep crop the slumping dyke vacant skies ? ? ? ? .

  • A #senryu Saturday (3/3/18) #haikai challenge update

    The Nor’Easter passed. Winds pick up after a quiet morning. Our power returned around four this morning. My internet service has not. Only our LTE-enabled devices (like The iPhone I’m using for this post) work. Optimum, my provider, assures me they’ll restore service soon. Sure, I’ll hold my breath waiting on them! 😆 As soon…

  • Shimmering

    Shimmering

    Originally posted on Haiku out of Africa: a beautiful thing ~ glistening with bright dewdrops ~ this morning’s feather — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa