Author: Frank J. Tassone

  • Conception (Reprise)

    Originally posted on method two madness: https://frankjtassone.files.wordpress.com/2020/12/conception-blk-s.jpg 1imaginegrowing roots intofertile ground fertile groundthe protective cloakof the earth of the earthtalking to the moonwith stillness with stillnesswelcome the new yearimagine https://frankjtassone.files.wordpress.com/2020/12/conception-close-up-1s.jpg 2always, earthtransitioning—liferearrangedinto newpatterns—open your arms wide–inhale, welcoming For Frank Tassone’s #haikai challenge for the New Year, and Colleen’s #tanka Tuesday challenge to write a poem…

  • Realize hope

    Realize hope

    #Haiku Happenings #1 (12/31/20): Eugenia’s latest #tanka for Colleen’s #Tanka Tuesday Weekly #Poetry Challenge No. 209, and my own current #Haikai Challenge! Poesy Perspectives full cold moon rises glimmers of hope before dawn wayward visions dwell enclosed in unturned pages new beginnings await us #Haikai Challenge #171 (12/29/20): Cold Moon (fuyu no tsuki)/New Year’s Eve…

  • Yielding Light: a tiny #tankaprose

    At last: Christmas lights, under a Cold Moon. all the ways we disappoint ourselves swept aside by that sustaining Love, that irresistable force for my own #Haikai Challenge!

  • Tanka for a cold moon

    Originally posted on Jane Dougherty Writes: For Frank Tassone’s challenge. earth iron-hardgleams frost-glittered in the lightof moonrisewill this grass furred and crispever flow wave-green again?

  • #Haiku: Cold Moon 2020

    Originally posted on Charmed Chaos: https://frankjtassone.files.wordpress.com/2020/12/tree-5189216_1280.jpg Image by Noutch from Pixabay cold pearled moon rising-gleaming in black winged crow skypinpricks of bright light Frank J. Tassone Haikai Challenge No. 171- Cold Moon/New Year’s Eve/ New Year’s Day

  • cold moon – – haiku

    Originally posted on Ontheland: cold moon a warm colour rising above the trees . . ©️2020 Ontheland Haikai Challenge #171 – Cold Moon Yes, this haiku was posted two hours before the prompt. Perhaps I am becoming psychic 😉 May 2021 be a better year for us all.

  • “bare boughs…” a #tanka (12/30/20)

    12/30/20: pine tree bare boughsand all the remainingwithered leavesstill, the evergreen promiseof all these pine trees #tanka #micropoetry #poetry

  • Space

    Originally posted on Heed not Steve: the one star no one sees lonely —- © Steve Mitchell 2020