Author: Frank J. Tassone

  • “The work…” a #tanka / #kyoka (7/29/20)

    7/29/20: PROMPT: patience and effort in the face of danger in this churning world..Meher’s Art Hug: (July 24) The work awakening others to systemic racism after all these years, finally getting into “good trouble.” #tanka #kyoka #micropoetry #poetry #BlackLivesMatter

  • Bliss in the morn

    Bliss in the morn

    #Haiku Happenings #6: Eugenia’s latest haiku for my current #haikai challenge! Poesy Perspectives rocky slope at dawn cascades pour forth purity unveiling prisms Frank Tassone’s #Haikai Challenge #149 (7/25/20): Waterfall (taki) #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka #haiga #renga Write the haikai poem of your choice (haiku, Senryu, haibun, Tanka, Haiga, renga, etc) that alludes to waterfall…

  • Waterfalls, #Haiku – Word Craft ~ Prose and Poetry

    #Haiku Happenings #5: Colleen Chesebro’s latest haiku for my current #haikai challenge! lofty cataractcrystal vapor caterwaulsinto mute birdsong https://colleenchesebro.com/2020/07/26/waterfalls-haiku/

  • nd 7.25 Rain Dance? 2p

    #Haiku Happenings #4: Jules’ latest poetic #haibun for my current #haikai challenge! Rain Dance? Twice we went to the famed NiagaraPassports required… but not stamped.I think of old valises with stickers on them…All the places one could go, once upon a time Took the Maid of the Mist ride once…Showered with the falls –The deafening…

  • My Daily #Haiku (7/29/20)

    7/29/20: garden a memory …“Midnight in the Gardenof Good and Evil” #haiku #micropoetry #poetry

  • gogyohka for a waterfall

    Originally posted on Jane Dougherty Writes: For Frank Tassone’s weekly haikai challenge. water falls swallow soars above creeping flowers yellow of trefoil and waterfall blue of speedwell ? cascade of colour creaming the gold of summer dew-spangled at morning mist silver by the light of the new moon

  • Haikai Challenge #149: Waterfall (taki)

    Originally posted on Tao-Talk: Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids, MI, February 2020 Mid-winter’s silver flows over rocks, under ice; gravity-compelled, defying temperature, waterfall tinkles in snow. ? It is in the 80’s here in MI. Looking for pictures of waterfalls, I came across the photo taken mid-winter and thought oh my, wouldn’t it…

  • Torrent

    #Haiku Happenings #1 (7/25/20): Peter Bouchier’s latest haiku for my current #haikai challenge! rain slays brain in twainthunder tears it asunderlightning brightens sight https://peterbouchier.wordpress.com/english-essays-and-poems-2/torrent/