Author: Frank J. Tassone

  • #SilentSaturday (6/6/20)

    As if you haven’t already guessed, a rest from haiku See you tomorrow!

  • “passing car…” a #tanka (6/5/20)

    6/5/20: prompt-free passing car and late afternoon birdsongs do the memorial candles still burn? #tanka #micropoetry #poetry #BlackLivesMatter #JusticeForGeorgeFloyd

  • breakfast

    Originally posted on Haiku Gravy: off to work pigeons in the cherry tree

  • Pacing

    Originally posted on haiku tree: noon pacing the house out of ideas ?

  • Haiku by Etheridge Knight

    Originally posted on Miriam's Well: Poetry, Land Art, and Beyond: Haiku by Etheridge Knight I admired and followed his work from my Boston years on–but never realized he wrote haiku. Time to re-read these. 1 Eastern guard tower glints in sunset; convicts rest like lizards on rocks. 2 The piano man is stingy, at 3…

  • My Daily #Haiku (6/5/20)

    6/5/20: float back floatthe cacaphonysilenced #haiku #micropoetry #poetry

  • Today’s Haiku (June 5, 2020)

    Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): あめんぼや鍛へて増やす骨密度  小池つと夢 amenbo ya kitaete fuyasu kotsumitsudo             water slider—             I exercise to increase             my bone density                                                 Tsutomu Koike from “Shûchakueki” (The Last Stop), haiku collection of Tsutomu Koike, Gendai Haiku Kyokai (Modern Haiku Association), Tokyo, 2019

  • #Gogyohka: Justice

    Originally posted on Charmed Chaos: http://Photo by hazem elsheltawi from PxHere “Where there is love there is life.”  ― Mahatma Gandhi What color is justiceIs it brown, black, white, red or yellow? Is it the brilliant cobalt of a Blue Jay’s wing?Or the heart breaking hues of a blush morning sky?Justice is a vivid kaleidoscope of…