Author: Frank J. Tassone

  • Justice

    #Haiku Happenings #1 (1/20/21): Reena Saxena’s latest #tanka for my current #Haikai Challenge!

  • “waving pines…” a #tanka (1/19/21)

    1/19/21: unprompted waving pineswhile cirrus cloudsobscure the sunafter a winter’s daymore exhaustion #tanka #micropoetry #tanka

  • Today’s Haiku (January 19, 2021)

    Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 青空の流れてゐたる氷柱かな   茨木和生 aozora no nagarete itaru tsurara kana ??????????? blue sky flowing ??????????? in its inside… ??????????? icicle ??????????????????????????????????????????????? Kazuo Ibaraki from ‘Haidan,’ (‘Haiku Stage’) a monthly haiku magazine, September 2017 Issue, Honami Shoten, Tokyo

  • daylight

    Originally posted on Poems From Oostburg, Wisconsin: daylightand more becomes cleara rabbit in the garden (kitchen window poem) Drawing of Rabbit is from Reusable Art.

  • Found Poetry #Tanka Tuesday

    #Haiku Happenings #4: Reena Saxena’s latest found #tanka for Colleen Chesebro’s #Tanka Tuesday #Poetry Challenge No. 209!

  • My Daily #Haiku (1/19/21)

    1/19/21: necklace and canoe blunted starsa faux pearl necklace ona discarded dress snowmeltin and out of rapidsa canoe #Haiku #micropoetry #poetry

  • Antigravity (senryu)

    Originally posted on SCRAMBLED, NOT FRIED: stepping off the scales —numerical amnesia— he’s lighter than air —————[|||]————— RDP Tuesday ~ LIGHTEN ———[||]———

  • Beware #haiku or #senryu

    Originally posted on Trent's World (the Blog): So peacefulSerene, invitingBeware: sharks ** Colleen is back and so is her weekly poetry challenge! This week is a poet’s choice week. I chose to do a haiku with a 3/5/3 structure. Or is it a senryu? I’ll let you decide…