Author: Frank J. Tassone

  • Mesilla: Haibun by Miriam Sagan

    Originally posted on Miriam's Well: Poetry, Land Art, and Beyond: Mesilla An alcove in an adobe wall, filled with clay churches, right behind the real church on the plaza. Chickens cluck all day, and the rooster crows at will—no alarm clock he. The dog barks at any imagined trespass. A bar band is playing “Papa…

  • Today’s Haiku (March 19, 2021)

    Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): ルビコンは渉らず近江霾ぐもり  柿本多映  rubikon wa watarazu ômi tsuchigumori ??????????? not crossing the Rubicon ??????????? Ohmi is cloudy ??????????? with yellow sand ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? Tae Kakimoto?????????? from “Haiku-kai” (“Haiku World,” a monthly haiku magazine), April 2017 Issue, Bungaku No Mori, Tokyo Fay’s Note:?? ‘tsuchi’ (yellow sand from Mongolia by…

  • Today’s Haiku (March 19, 2021)

    Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): ルビコンは渉らず近江霾ぐもり  柿本多映  rubikon wa watarazu ômi tsuchigumori ??????????? not crossing the Rubicon ??????????? Ohmi is cloudy ??????????? with yellow sand ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? Tae Kakimoto?????????? from “Haiku-kai” (“Haiku World,” a monthly haiku magazine), April 2017 Issue, Bungaku No Mori, Tokyo Fay’s Note:?? ‘tsuchi’ (yellow sand from Mongolia by…

  • “raindrops…” a #tanka (3/18/21)

    3/18/21: unprompted raindropsclinging to thesebare brancheson Open School Eveninga single appointment #tanka #micropoetry #poetry

  • Tic toc TROIKU Daily Moments March 17 2021

    Originally posted on Tournesol dans un Jardin: ? Waiting My new specialty Tic toc Waiting Filling time With joy My new specialty Sending joy to special friends Homemade greeting cards Tic toc Go with the flow… And heartbeat © tournesol ‘2021-03-17

  • Monoku

    Originally posted on Bending moments: spurning the elixir of youth the smirk in her eyes sales pitch — Bloo Outlier Journal #issue 1

  • Originally posted on elancharan gunasekaran: after dark sirens sound the end of winter

  • My Daily #Haiku (3/18/21)

    3/18/21: where the house was cold rainpassing the gas stationwhere the house was #haiku #micropoetry #poetry