Author: Frank J. Tassone

  • An Empty Mind

    An Empty Mind

    Originally posted on Smell The Coffee: ? Silence at dawn Divine inspiration Quiet time ©Vivian Zems (#senryu) Carpe Diem Haiku Kai  #1334 […] “Now each morning, when your mind is still empty, devote a little time to the Divine … Inhale deeply and ask for all the blessings in the air to enter your body…

  • Merry Christmas! #haiku #poetry #Christmas

    This concludes my special day-of-Christmas-eve posting. I will take off tomorrow. Merry Christmas, everyone! See you on Tuesday!     green Christmas these gathering clouds promise a white Christmas  

  • Today’s Haiku (December 23, 2017)

    Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 降る雪が川の中にもふり昏れぬ  高屋窓秋 furuu yuki ga kawa no naka nimo furi kurenu falling snow into the river, too… dusk                                     Soshu Takaya from ‘Haidan,’ (‘Haiku Stage’) a monthly haiku magazine, April 2016 Issue, Honami Shoten, Tokyo Fay’s Note: Soshu Takaya (1910-1999) ?

  • December Stardust!

    Originally posted on Project words: Delighted to appear in the issue of Stardust today ! ? on the wings of a raven moon rise ? Rachel Sutcliffe Stardust December 2017https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NBNVfkOeQnZi4qu0Gki7pFaGV2KwbR2X/view

  • Daily Haiku: Dec. 24, 2017

    Originally posted on Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog: senryu ? an old argument untangling the christmas lights ? ? by Ben Moeller-Gaa (USA) Notes from the Gean, Vol. 3, No. 4, 2012 ?

  • a garden in winter

    a garden in winter

    Originally posted on 日本文化の愛 Nipponbunka no ai: 冬庭や月もいとなるむしの吟 fuyu niwa ya tsuki mo ito naru mushi no gin A garden in winter: A thin thread of moon above A single insect’s lonely cry. -Matsuo Basho ? Art by Oda Kazuma, “A snowy day at a garden in Kyoto”

  • In Praise (#senryu)

    In Praise (#senryu)

    Originally posted on Smell The Coffee: gifts to unwrap eyes and voices raised in praise we remember why ©Vivian Zems Carpe Diem Haiku Kai- a choir of angels

  • Eufemia Griffo – Stardust December, 2017

    Originally posted on Memorie di una Geisha, multiblog internazionale di Haiku: constellations winter wind blows away the last stars * Eufemia Griffo  Stardust December 2017