Author: Frank J. Tassone

  • mourning

    Originally posted on Project words: ? mourning suit how mist seeps though every seam ? ? ?

  • in the snow country

    in the snow country

    Originally posted on 日本文化の愛 Nipponbunka no ai: 雪國や粮たのもしき小家がち yukiguni ya kate tanomoshiki koie gachi In the snow country To want for provisions is The way of all the little huts. -Yosa Buson Art by Hiroshige

  • #Throwdown Thursday (1/25/18): my lastest #haibun on .@ImageCurve… #haiku #poetry

    Such Monotony     Another day.   Students to nudge to work or be silent, while others teach. While I remain voiceless…   Another day.   IEPs to write. The implications of the difference to face. Between where I am, and where the report indicates I ought to be…   Another day.   Already a…

  • The Living Haiku Anthology – Johnny Baranski

    #Haiku Happenings #11: The Living Haiku Anthology Posts haiku by Johnny Baranski, who passed away earlier today. Rest In Peace, Johnny! We’ll miss you! http://livinghaikuanthology.com/readings/haiku-readings/2732-johnny-baranski-reading-selection.html

  • Photo prompt round up – Distant #writephoto

    Originally posted on Sue Vincent's Daily Echo: Distant * Faltering sunlight Otherworldly shadows cast A far horizon Within a circle of stones I stand beyond time’s compass * A ring of silver Defining reality Beneath a pale sky Evanescent cupola Covers the sacred chalice * I the emptiness The vessel and elixir Offered to the…

  • lost and found

    Originally posted on Ontheland: lost in the corn fields, a traffic jam of thoughts row on row on row wind turbines chart the sky unmoved by the passing sun spun by the breeze sunset crickets sing silence as long shadows grow, a new path appears ~ The poem is a troiku based on this haiku:…

  • Haiku Windows

    Originally posted on Project words: ? Delighted to appear today in Haiku Windows – ? plane window the fields we once played chase in ? Rachel Sutcliffe Haiku Windows 24.01.18 https://www.thehaikufoundation.org/2018/01/24/haiku-windows-airplane-window/

  • Daily Haiku: Jan. 25, 2018

    Originally posted on Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog: among barren trees one star dreams of motherhood by Ronald K. Craig (USA) Modern Haiku, Vol. 48:3, Autumn 2017 ?