Author: Frank J. Tassone

  • Today’s Haiku (September 29, 2020)

    Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): ふるさとを恋ふこともなく障子貼る   阿部みどり女 furusato o kou koto mo naku shoji haru without longing for home I repaper shoji screens                                     Midorijo Abe from “Haiku Dai-Saijiki” (“Comprehensive Haiku Saijiki”), Kadokawa Shoten, Tokyo, 2006 Fay’s Note:  Midorijo Abe (1886-1980)  ‘shoji haru’ (paper (or ‘repaper) a shoji screen) is an…

  • Guiding light

    Guiding light

    #Haiku Happenings #4: Eugenia’s latest haiku for my current #Haikai Challenge! Poesy Perspectives drowsy phantoms flee glory of the harvest moon light shines til dawning Frank Tassone’s #Haikai Challenge #158 (9/28/20): Harvest Moon (meigetsu) #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka #haiga #renga -Eugenia image source – lovethispic.com View original post

  • My Daily #Haiku (9/29/20)

    9/29/20: cheek after dancing cheek to cheek… rainfall #haiku #micropoetry #poetry

  • Willow’s #Haikai Challenge #158 (9/28/20): Harvest Moon (meigetsu) #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka #haiga #renga

    Originally posted on willowdot21: This Thursday, October arrives, and the Harvest Moon comes with it! That’s right: the September Full moon shows up a tad late, and October will have a blue moon on Halloween–the Hunter Moon! What better kigo can we ask for this week, haijin, but the Harvest Moon (meigetsu)? This week for…

  • Originally posted on Haiku out of Africa: the people we dream ~ leaving trails without names ~ ever in our minds

  • Aesculus hippocastanum

    Originally posted on Haiku Gravy: woodland sunbeams a conker peeks out of its shell

  • #Haikai Challenge #158 (9/28/20): Harvest Moon (meigetsu) #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka #haiga #renga

    Have you equinoxed enough, haijin? Congratulations to last week’s contributors: Haikai Challenge Participants 1. Ken Gierke / rivrvlogr2. Colleen Chesebro3. Eugenia4. Jules5. Ron. Lavalette6. willowdot217. Li/Lisa Fox of W MI, USA 8. Goutam Dutta9. Jane Dougherty10. Tina Stewart Brakebill11. Linda Lee Lyberg12. Kerfe Roig13. Xenia Tran14. Jules #2 15. Pat R16. s.s.17. Christine Bolton, Poetry…

  • Daily Haiku: Sept. 28, 2020

    Originally posted on Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog: covid confinement a fly on the face of the stone buddha by Marco Fraticelli (Canada)