Author: Frank J. Tassone
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#Haikai Challenge #151 (8/9/20): first (autumn) storm (hatsu arashi) / Darkness (Yami) #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka #haiga #renga
#Haiku Happenings #3: Tessa’s latest haiku for my current #Haikai Challenge!
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Blustery conditions
#Haiku Happenings #2: Eugenia’s latest haiku for my current #Haikai Challenge! Poesy Perspectives howling winds wicked where once quiet existed menacing darkness Frank Tassone’s #Haikai Challenge #151 (8/9/20): first (autumn) storm (hatsu arashi) / Darkness (Yami) #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka #haiga #renga As Isaias struck in August, the first Autumn month of the traditional calendar,…
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rain falls in torrents ~ haiku
Originally posted on rivrvlogr: rain falls in torrents oak leaves turn to face the wind darkness comes early This haiku is my response to Frank Tassone’s #Haikai Challenge #151: first (autumn) storm/Darkness. On the traditional Chinese calendar, autumn begins in early August. (click image for larger view in new tab)
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A Get-together: an .@ImageCurve #Haibun
Michelle drops her son off at our house earlier than expected. Matthew joins us at the kitchen table as we finish dinner. Mira defrosts and then reheats the leftover Ziti his mother brought. Frankie plays waiter-captain, as he sets Matthew’s place-setting and pours him a glass of cranberry juice. After dinner, the boys and I…
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#Haikai Challenge #151 (8/9/20): first (autumn) storm (hatsu arashi) / Darkness (Yami) #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka #haiga #renga
How was your moon-gazing, haijin? Many of you may have enjoyed it! Congratulations to last week’s contributors! Haikai Challenge Participants 1. Goutam Dutta2. s.s.3. Jane Dougherty4. Jules5. Ken Gierke / rivrvlogr 6. willowdot217. Eugenia8. Christine Bolton9. Linda Lee Lyberg10. Li/Lisa Fox — West Michigan, USA 11. Kerfe Roig12. Ken Gierke / rivrvlogr (2)13. Xenia Tran14.…
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Originally posted on Discourse This!: A beautiful day As the wind ruffles the trees A fleeting moment (C) Gunnar Larson 8-9-20
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wisdom in patience – a poem
Originally posted on ronovanwrites: If you get caught up in an offense someone does against you, you will never complete a mission you have set for yourself. Movements pitter out, fade away. Then nothing is accomplished. Offenses are used as misdirection to distract you and then the foe wins. e’er your zeal should be free…
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fragrance of leaves
Originally posted on Poems From Oostburg, Wisconsin: fragrance of leavesin the gardenswhat good friendswe becameas we grew older My poem has been published online: Tanka by Ellen Grace Olinger Charlotte Digregorio’s Writer’s BlogAugust 8, 2020 A book: They Gave Us Life: Celebrating Mothers, Fathers & Others in Haiku. Edited by Robert Epstein. Middle Island Press,…
