Frank J. Tassone

Author: Frank J. Tassone

  • Scarlet Dragonfly Journal, issue 13 – April 2023

    Originally posted on Vento del giorno: sumi ink paper —trying to make itthrough the day https://scarletdragonflyjournal.files.wordpress.com/2023/03/issue-13-2023-04-april-2.pdf Versione italiana inchiostro di china —cercando di arrivarealla fine del giorno © A.M. Immagine dal web

  • Today’s Haiku (April 2, 2023)

    Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 菜の花や岩を曲れば怒涛見ゆ　　　阿部みとり女 nanohana ya iwa o magareba dotô miyu ??????????? rape blossoms— ??????????? turning at the rock ??????????? I see angry waves ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? Midorijo Abe from Haiku Shiki (Haiku Four Seasons), February 2023 Issue, Tokyo Shiki Shuppan, Tokyo Fay’s Note:? Midorijo Abe (1886-1980)

  • Contracting Impressions

    Constellations, bearing light hundreds, to thousands of years old to our eyes. Light, older still, from stars beyond our capacity for observation, streaking across the void. An expanding edge, beyond which defies imagination, stretching further and further from the 13.4 billion-lightyears away center of it all. Imagine the entire universe is one cell of one…

  • Contemporary Haibun Online

    Originally posted on Whispers of the Soul: Contemporary Haibun Online, Issue 19.1 is out and it features my haibun “Birding”. Thanks to my birding friends Harmeet & Jatinder Vijh. Grateful to Rich Youmans, Editor for the guidance & publication. Congratulations to all featured poets. Birding Each day we are forgotten by ourselvesthrough ourselves,For we do…

  • Haiga, Haiku and Stories In Island Lore – 3-30-2023

    Originally posted on A 19 Planets Art Blog 2010/2024: * silver shimmeron a glass-smooth seapale moonlight ** ** middle nightflashing through shutterscontinuous thunder *

  • Haibun for the sleep thief

    Originally posted on Jane Dougherty Writes: Photo ©Fentriss There are foxes and badgers and hedgehogs that snuffle and rootle and dig beneath the windows at night, deer and hares that dance in the meadow, boar that dig over the soft earth beneath the willows and the poplars. There are barn owls and tawny owls that…

  • Foolish Notions: a #tankaprose (4/1/23)

    4/1/23: April musings A submission due, and yet an unmet requirement remains. A text asking for an ETA is left unanswered. An overcast sky, promising a persistent drizzle, transforms into a cloudless one. Why must these contradictions of common sense fester on this first of April? what elsecan one expect fromApril Fool’s daya clawless cat…

  • April 1, 2023: Daily Haiku Special with Elmedin Kadric

    Originally posted on Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog: snowflakesshe callsdibs   by Elmedin Kadric (Sweden) Modern Haiku, Vol. 51:3, Autumn 2020 living alonetelling one cry of a crowfrom another   by Elmedin Kadric (Sweden) Frogpond, Vol. 43:3, 2020