Author: Frank J. Tassone
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Featured Poem Alert: Weekly Poetry Challenge Stars | #PhotoPrompt: Frank Tassone – Word Craft ~ Prose and Poetry
Delighted to learn that Colleen Chesebro has selected my tanka-prose Predation as her featured poem of her 2020 Weekly #Tanka Tuesday #Poetry Challenge No. 178 #PhotoPrompt! For me, Frank’s tanka prose echoes the political realities of our brave new world. I also like that he wrote in the second person as if pointing his figure…
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nd 5.24 consternation conscripted 3p – Jules Pens Some Gems…
#Haiku Happenings #3: Jules’ latest #haibun for my current #haikai challenge! consternation conscripted (99 word haibun) rheumy eyes water, no roomie, in roomy home no celebration? perhaps he thinks it’s enough to be alive and breathing This Memorial Day weekend, some waists may expand. Others may feel the waste of space – due to social…
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Haikai Challenge #140 (5/21/20): Memorial Day
Originally posted on Tao-Talk: image from this website Breeze sways spattered poppies long after the sniper is gone — dark falls on a corpse. * Ravaged meat in a box: Special Delivery. Worms finish what maggots started. * He watches her kneel in the wet grass at his grave, crying for herself in her long…
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Finding Peace In A Fight
#Haiku Happenings #1 (5/25/20): Dave Madden’s latest #senryu for my current #haikai challenge!
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#SilentSunday (5/24/20)
A rest from #haiku See you tomorrow!
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#Haikai Challenge #140 (5/21/20): summer meadow (natsuno) / Memorial Day #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka #haiga #renga
Have you savored enough fragrance, haijin! Congratulations to last week’s contributors! Haikai Challenge Participants 1. Dave Madden2. Li/Lisa3. Jules4. Peter 5. Xenia Tran6. Revived Writer7. Kerfe Roig8. Eugenia 9. Pat R10. Janice Powered by… Mister Linky’s Magical Widgets. Looking ahead. The United States celebrates Memorial Day this Monday. As I stated in my last Memorial…
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To Journey on, or not to Journey on … a #TankaProse
The road less traveled continues. The choice to follow it or turn back remains. No one else makes that decision. No one else faces the consequence. spring gusts after a morning of rain the effort of taking one step, then another for 23rd May 2020 prompt: Gerry Muse #208 (occasional tanka prose) Walking On
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Playlist
Originally posted on haiku tree: midnight youtube playlist keeps me company ?