Author: Frank J. Tassone

  • Haibun: The Season Keeps on Walking – Whippet Wisdom – a Highland Journey

    #Haiku Happenings #2: Xenia Trans’ latest #haibun! Ground-nesting birds have fledged and it is safe to return to the wetlands. The lack of rain in Summer shows itself in scattered leaves and dried out bushes. A hint of gold begins to glitter in the reeds, offering us an early glimpse where Autumn’s cloak will fall.…

  • Today’s Haiku (August 30, 2021)

    Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 打ち上げてみたきオクラの五六発  大竹和子 uchiagete mitaki okura no g0- ro-ppatsu ??????????? I want to launch ??????????? five or six of them… ??????????? okras ??????????????????????????????????????????????? Kazuko Otake from Haiku Dai-Saijiki (Comprehensive Haiku Saijiki), Kadokawa Shoten, Tokyo, 2006

  • “sticky skin…” a #tanka (8/25/21)

    8/25/21: unprompted sticky skinas the cicadascracklehow I yearn for the coolof an Autumn afternoon #tanka #micropoetry #poetry

  • Nothing To At Sneeze

    Originally posted on Heed not Steve: summer pollen –he feels his sinusesin his teeth —— © Steve Mitchell 2021

  • Otoroshi Journal, issue 3 – Autumn 2021

    Originally posted on Vento del giorno: My haiku in the latest issue of Otoroshi Journal. deep woods a witch with red eyes showing the way unborn babies floating in my dreams— blood moon © A.M. https://743677d2-8c1c-418e-a00f-e6808aa7cc9d.filesusr.com/ugd/a59fed_48833b418c834eafa1b6eb0761e8b33d.pdf

  • My Daily #Haiku (8/25/21)

    8/25/21: love of a ( so-called) imperfect body morning walk…she smiles as sherubs my belly #haiku #senryu #micropoetry #poetry

  • warm August morning

    Originally posted on Poems From Oostburg, Wisconsin: warm August morningorange lilies bloomedand now rest – hosta tootoday a red cardinalvisits the birch treein a garden withred geranium flowers These are a few of my haiku with birds, over the seasons and years. birds in the paintingfrom the thrift storeforever in flight how small the songof…

  • 2543

    Originally posted on Cat Nap Revue: late night cricket jamfootsteps of young peopleheaded home