Author: Frank J. Tassone

  • “Autumn gusts…” a #tanka (12/23/20)

    12/23/20: leaves on the wind Autumn gusts…freshly raked leavesflutter alofthow I wishI could join them #tanka #micropoetry #poetry

  • Daily Haiku: Dec. 23, 2020

    Originally posted on Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog: evening star…she sleeps with the lion’s tailin her little hand   by Tom Clausen (USA) Chapbooks, December 2013

  • Jolly

    Originally posted on Heed not Steve: dry winter air – my nose shiny and red —- © Steve Mitchell 2020

  • December haiku 4

    Originally posted on Vento del giorno: Lindsay Kreighbaum Photography tangerinesthe age of innocenceinside their scent mandarinil’età dell’innocenzadentro il profumo ©A.M

  • My Daily #Haiku (12/23/20)

    12/23/20: festivus festivus…where can I erectthat bare pole? #haiku #senryu #micropoetry #poetry #festivus

  • 20th Anniversary Haiku Collection – I Wish

    Originally posted on Icebox: Hailstone Haiku Circle was founded on 11.11.2000 at a meet in Shiga prefecture. That day, we visited Ukimido 浮御堂 and noticed a rainbow over the northern part of Lake Biwa. It had seemed to stay with us, there to the right of  Mt. Hira, all afternoon long! 20 years on, I…

  • Haiku Sequence

    Originally posted on Jane Dougherty Writes: Frank Tassone has set a big catch-up challenge. Ten prompts in one. In order they are: scarecrowsea bassSamhainVeteran’s dayindian summerThanksgivingbeaver moonwitherind windHanukkahwinter solstice My response in the same order: in the lonely fieldarms reach out a perch a pleawary crows pass by pool brightthe silver fish turns abouta wish…

  • There’s light in aloneness

    There’s light in aloneness

    #Haiku Happenings #1 (12/23/20): Eugenia’s latest #tanka for my current #Haikai Challenge! Poesy Perspectives solitude at peace native to winter solstice slumbering comforts a drizzle of icicles reflect an early dawning Frank Tassone’s Incarnations: a #Haikai Challenge collection (10/17-12/19: #161-#170) #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka #haiga #renga Tanka response to December 19th – Solstice II/Christmas -Eugenia…