Author: Frank J. Tassone

  • Passing…

    Originally posted on Sue Vincent's Daily Echo: For Colleen’s Tanka Tuesday

  • #Tanka Tuesday (December 26, 2017)…O Holy Night: A #tankaprose for Colleen+Kiwinana’s challenges #haiku #poetry #Christmas

    (courtesy of two-chums)   Cold, starry night those shepherds’ reality pierced by novel light among the singing stars they find a manger-laden babe     A veil of all-to-human darkness fallen upon the world. Client-kings cater to the lock-step of Legionnaires bearing the word of Caesar. How could such a new star shine for the…

  • Haiku in the Workplace

    Originally posted on Project words: Delighted to appear once again today in Jim Kacian’s Haiku in The Workplace – ? posting a haiku breaking the tedium of another working day ? Rachel Sutcliffe Haiku Foundation Haiku in the Workplace 26/12/17 https://www.thehaikufoundation.org/2017/12/26/haiku-in-the-workplace-why-we-haiku-here/ ? ?

  • Season’s Greetings

    Originally posted on Jane Dougherty Writes: I know I said that this Christmas was going to be a silent, contemplative time, but it didn’t work out quite like that. We did a lot of cooking, a lot of eating, made a lot of noise, terrified the animals with silly Christmas costumes (definitely not my idea)…

  • Sparkle

    Sparkle

    #Haiku Happenings #12: Janice’s latest haiku for my current #haikai challenge!

  • Today’s Haiku (December 25, 2017)

    Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): ビラ配るサンタの銀の指輪かな  吉川 創揮 bira kubaru santa no gin no yubwa kana Santa Claus handing out fliers… his silver ring                                     Soki Yoshikawa from “Shûkan Haiku” (“Haiku Weekly”) #508, 1/15/2017 Issue, http://weekly-haiku.blogspot.com

  • Haibun – Christmas, 1980

    Originally posted on qbit: After college, I spent a few years traveling around Europe, picking up work here and there. In one such adventure, I worked in a shelter for homeless East End London youths. This was back when Docklands still had bombed out buildings from the Blitz and Cockney was what you heard in…

  • Sweet Stars of Christmas: Haibun

    Originally posted on Yesterday and today: Merril's historical musings: Monday Morning Musings: “I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that…