Author: Frank J. Tassone

  • Daily Haiku: Jan. 1, 2021

    Originally posted on Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog: mind the gap green gloves grip what’s left         by Roberta Beary  (Ireland/USA) noon: journal of the short poem Issues 17 & 18, December 2020  

  • Issue 61 is now UP! HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

    Originally posted on failed haiku – a journal of English Senryu: This issue is over 200 pages of some of the most creative work I have edited. I told you there were no restrictions and many of you took me right up on the challenge. I love the experimental, but there are lovely, and sometimes…

  • “New Year’s Day…” a #tanka (1/1/21)

    1/1/21: prompt-free New Year’s Daybare oaks and maplesstand stillas the Earth keeps turningI breathe, and breathe again #tanka #micropoetry #poetry #newyearsday

  • Happy New Year 2021

    Originally posted on The Lotus: Haibun: Rising The Master’s tale of the the underground cave. The sun asks the cave to come up to the light but the cave response is one of bewilderment. He has no idea of light having lived all his life in the darkness of the underground. Mustering courage he eventually…

  • January Haiku and Photo

    Originally posted on Poems From Oostburg, Wisconsin: new year sunriselight fillsthe red poinsettia My haiku was accepted by WestWard Quarterly for the Winter 2021 issue. January thaw . . .letting goof old heartaches Published in?A Splash of Water: Haiku Society of America 2015 Members’?Anthology, edited by Catherine J.S. Lee. https://frankjtassone.files.wordpress.com/2021/01/lakerinthemist5.jpg Ship In The?MistJanuary 2012Photo by…

  • New Year 2021

    Originally posted on Ada's Poetry Alcove (2): Carpe Diem #1842 End Of Year New Year’s Eveday spent cleaning houseclearing outplanning for a brighter yearleaving baggage behind ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ a minute after midnightmy spouse bundles up warmlytakes treats for stray catscold air spilling in doora mixture of sadness and hope ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ NewYear’s Daya squirrel shakes his tailat…

  • My Daily #Haiku (1/1/21)

    1/1/21: moon, paper birds waning gibbousan overcast sky“on New Year’s Day…” origami–the child-like hopethis new year #haiku #micropoetry #poetry #NewYearsDay

  • five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes

    Originally posted on Ontheland: snowflakes in a blinding storm we find each other . . https://youtu.be/wsj15wPpjLY Seasons of Love: Rent Original Motion Picture Soundtrack ©️2021 Ontheland