Author: Frank J. Tassone

  • Today’s Haiku (April 6, 2021)

    Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): チューリップ散る一片はゴッホの耳  有馬朗人 chûrippu chiru ippen wa gohho no mimi ??????????? tulip ??????????? the falling petal ??????????? is van Gough’s ear ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? Akito Arima from “Haiku Dai-Saijiki” (“Comprehensive Haiku Saijiki”), Kadokawa Shoten, Tokyo, 2006 Fay’s Note:? Akito Arima (1930-2020)

  • 2457

    Originally posted on Cat Nap Revue: ghost pawsghost snugglesthe cat not there

  • Gemini: a #haibun (4/6/21): Day 6 of #Nationalpoetrymonth

    Somewhere, a freezing preteen in an Iroquois loincloth chants, “I have faith in God. He will keep me warm.” He holds a torch above his head, standing with a legion like himself–shivering on a cold night. A bonfire down a grassy slope ignites. The legion marches foward. While the light of an apathetic moon shimmers…

  • Originally posted on petrujviljoen: reflection in thewindow – someone else’s roof –hadeda at rest

  • Haiku about things that make us happy

    Originally posted on Bill Waters ~~ Haiku: cloudburst! running for shelter laughing   out in the rain that girl who twirls her umbrella Published in Brass Bell: A Haiku Journal (http://brassbellhaiku.blogspot.com/2021/04/haiku-happiness.html), 4/1/21. *    *    *    *

  • Daily Haiku: April 6, 2021

    Originally posted on Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog: social distance learning to love being alone       by Lynne Jambor (Canada) Haiku Canada Review, Vol. 15, No. 1, February 2021  

  • My Daily #Haiku (4/6/21) #Nationalpoetrymonth

    4/6/21: adobe #NationalPoetryMonth Four Cornerssunlit adobefrom the cliffside #haiku #micropoetry #poerty #NaPoWriMo #GloPoWriMo #napowrimo2021 #glopowrimo2021

  • Tanka 3

    Originally posted on whimsy~mimsy: the house finch perches on the blackberry bramble outside our window dawn casts his faint shadow on the pillow beside your face