Frank J. Tassone

Author: Frank J. Tassone

  • waterfall – – monoku

    Originally posted on Ontheland: synchronizing my fluidity becoming a waterfall . . https://youtu.be/Qo3OM5sPUPM . . synchronizing my fluidity becoming a waterfall . . ©2020 Ontheland The poem reads as one continuous line on a screen that is wide enough. It is a one-line haiku or ‘monoku’. Haikai Challenge #149 – waterfall The video: three hours…

  • Covid-ku

    Originally posted on Xanku: Dinner with best friends Such a normal thing to do And yet so strange In wet summer air How to judge humidity: How damp is the mask Early dog walkers Smiling at me with their eyes. My glasses fogged up. Three haiku from the 31 Haiku for July series, pulled for…

  • Michael G. Smith Thomas Merton

    Originally posted on Miriam's Well: Poetry, Land Art, and Beyond: Thomas Merton took a fifteen-day trip to the northern California coast and high New Mexico desert in May 1968. He hadn’t spent much time away from the Abbey of Gethsemani in Kentucky during the previous twenty-six years. However, his books were bringing more people to…

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    Echidna Tracks presents a haiku by Mark Miller! Echidna Tracks sundown glow on cave walls ochre-limned palm prints Mark Miller View original post

  • New Honorary Curator, American Haiku Archives Just Announced (July 2020)

    Originally posted on Alexis Rotella's Blog: Raleigh, NC Afro-American poet Lenard Moore was given the honor this July.  I met Lenard back in the early 80’s at Japan House in Manhattan when we were both new on the haiku scene.  It was my pleasure to enjoy his performance at the Haiku North America conference in…

  • A Triple-Waterfall Experience: a #haiku sequence

    12, 000 years carving through limestone Genesee river low-pitched roar a saturating mist soft on our skin stair upon stair spreading from the bottom a rainbow a long hike how mesmorizing, this falling water even in this stifling heat Portage Falls I’m hosting dVerse Poets’ MTB, where we write haiku sequences. The pub is open!…

  • Today’s Haiku (July 30, 2020)

    Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): わが旅のこれより先は大夕焼　　長谷川　櫂 waga tabi no koreyori saki wa ôyuyake             my journey             from here             just a vast sunset                                                 Kai Hasegawa from ‘Haidan,’ (‘Haiku Stage’) a monthly haiku magazine, September  2016 Issue, Honami Shoten, Tokyo Fay’s Note:  ‘yuuyake (or ‘yuyake’) (sunset) is a summer…

  • MTB: Haiku Sequence

    Originally posted on dVerse: Welcome to DVerse, Poets! Frank Tassone here, your host for today’s Meet the Bar, where we take a deep dive into poetic craft. Many of us have written haibun for Haibun Monday prompts. That means we have written haiku. Did you know that you could write multiple haiku that express a…