Author: Frank J. Tassone

  • Today’s Haiku (July 14, 2021)

    Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 烏賊干すやすみれ色なる伊豆の海   佐野鬼人 ika hosu ya sumire-iro naru izu no umi ??????????? squids being dried— ??????????? Izu Ocean in the color ??????????? of a violet ??????????????????????????????????????????????? Onihito Sano from Haiku Dai-Saijiki (Comprehensive Haiku Saijiki), Kadokawa Shoten, Tokyo, 2006 Fay’s Note:? “squid” is a summer kigo.

  • Haiku # 697

    Originally posted on Rooted in Love: Poème inachevé…tremblant je quitterais la vie,une feuille d’automne… ~ من عُطرِكِ عرفتُ اسمِكِلا أقولُهُ ولكنيأحفظَهُ في داخلي ~ From your fragranceI knew your nameI don’t say itbut safe keep itdeep in my heart ~ في حفنة ترابكم من دمعة وابتسامةبعثرها الزمن؟ In a handful of dirthow many smiles and…

  • My Daily #Haiku (7/14/21)

    (After a long delay!) 7/14/21: pasture droughtall along the pasturebrown patches #haiku #micropoetry #poetry

  • Back Burner

    Originally posted on Heed not Steve: days also nights –absent minded he forgets to be mindful —— © Steve Mitchell 2021

  • Originally posted on WHITE SKIES: . strictly speaking it’s an ivory tower for two .

  • Barbara Kaufmann’s “Late Autumn – wabi sabi ~~~ poems and images”

    #Haiku Happenings #1 (7/14/21): Barbara Kaufmann’s haiku appeared in THF’s Haiku Dialogue! late autumn we finally buy      a grave *** Haiku Foundation Haiku Dialogue 1/16/21 Late Autumn – wabi sabi ~~~ poems and images

  • Hortus Trinitatis

    Lush flora, bathing Eden’s morning air in a delicate aromal song. Dafodils, rhododendrums, a kaleidescope of perennials and annuals: a blissful variety tantalizing sight and smell alike! And yet amidst perfection, an offered temptation to take what is not given. A temptation yielded to, with that all too familiar sense of entitlement, that pride, urging…

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    Originally posted on Echidna Tracks: green fieldsstrewnwith shorn sheep Irene McGuire