Author: Frank J. Tassone

  • Daily Haiku: Jan. 22, 2021

    Originally posted on Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog: Below are three haiku from Australian Poet Gregory Piko’s new book, “breaking my journey.” empty ocean the shearwater’s belly catches the sun   her cotton skirt falls softly to the ground steady rain   ragged edge the cabbage moth’s wing and the cabbage   This book was published…

  • My Daily #Haiku (1/22/21)

    1/22/21: mist and gate morning mista single leaf fallson dew-soaked earth no onewalking through itopen gate #haiku #micropoetry #poetry

  • Zbor întrerupt – Vol interrompu – Interrupted flight

    Originally posted on PHOENIX: zborul intrerupt – doar pene-mprăştiate de vântul toamnei vol interrompu – seules des plumes éparpillées par le vent d’automne interrupted flight – only scattered feathers by the autumn wind Photo&Haiku : Virginia Popescu

  • 410,336

    Originally posted on K.: https://frankjtassone.files.wordpress.com/2021/01/body-bags-s.jpg piles of names,ghosts–absent emptyerased gone erased, gone–we can’t remembercomprehend comprehendthem—we are finitethinkers, minds thinkers, mindstoo crammed with dailysurvival survival–and yet why is itno one asks no one asksus to stop listena moment a moment–so many voicesnow silent now silent—is it too much ofa burden a burdento carry them herealongside alongsidethe…

  • (In)Justice

    Originally posted on revivedwriter: This haiku was inspired by Frank J. Tassone’s haikai challenge, “Justice.” I am sharing this poem with JusJoJan: Spell because I had to spell some words in order to write this post. 🙂 I am also linking to DVerse OLN. Unfortunately, I missed the live portion, but it’s okay because I…

  • “perspiration…” a #tanka (1/21/21)

    1/21/21: INSPIRATION: Hope (for Amanda Gorman) perspirationas winter sunlight bathesa poet’s facewhile her annunciationilluminates our shade #tanka #micropoetry #poetry #AmandaGorman #inauguration2021

  • Today’s Haiku (January 21, 2021)

    Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 世の中の炬燵の中という処   池田澄子 yononaka no kotatsu no naka to iu tokoro ??????????? in this world ??????????? the place under ??????????? ‘kotatsu’ quilt ??????????????????????????????????????????????? Sumiko Ikeda from “Haiku Saijiki” electronic version edited by Kadokawa Shoten, published by Kodansha Sophia Shuppan, Tokyo, Japan, 2018 Fay’s Note:? ‘Kotatsu’ is a…

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    Originally posted on Echidna Tracks: / the drip drip drip of rain on our tent dawn cacophony a Louise Hopewell a