Author: Frank J. Tassone

  • Daily Haiku: May 19, 2020

    Originally posted on Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog: May sunrise a few more flowers on the Christmas cactus   by Ellen Grace Olinger (USA) https://ellenolinger.wordpress.com/

  • Tanka: Wings of a Cormorant

    Tanka: Wings of a Cormorant

    #Haiku Happenings #1 (5/19/20): Xenia Trans’ latest #tanka!

  • Today’s Haiku (May 18, 2020)

    Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 婚と葬家にかさなる聖五月  角川源義 kon to sô ie ni kasanaru seigogatsu             a wedding and a funeral             one after another at home             holy may                                                 Genyoshi Kadokawa from ‘Haiku,’ a monthly haiku magazine, March 2017 Issue, Kabushiki Kaisha Kadokawa, Tokyo

  • Tanka: Arctic Breeze

    Tanka: Arctic Breeze

    #Haiku Happenings #5: Xenia Tran’s latest #tanka for my current #haikai challenge!

  • Peter Bouchier’s “Spring”

    Haiku Happenings #4: Peter Bouchier’s latest haiku for my current #haikai challenge! natural beauty veiled in sensual perfume all she needs to wear https://peterbouchier.wordpress.com/english-essays-and-poems-2/spring/

  • My Daily #Haiku (5/18/20)

    5/18/20: rose hips spring rain againrose hipsleft untasted #haiku #micropoetry #poetry

  • nd 5.17 carried kunpuu 1p – Jules Pens Some Gems…

    #Haiku Happenings #3: Jules’ latest solo #renga for my current #haikai challenge! carried kunpuu walk first; then shopping a gentle rain begins as I load groceries lawn was mowed, now it can grow muffins got baked for dessert seedlings grow taller as they follow the sun that plays at hide and seek second walk as…

  • #Haikai Challenge #139: fragrant breeze (kunpuu) — Spring’s Fragrant Array

    Originally posted on Tao-Talk: hyacinth and violets Spring’s Fragrant Array ? Rosemary pushes Against lake breeze from the west As it gathers friends. Violets, lilies, lilac; Hyacinth dance with humus. Earthworms inhale to Celebrate in their blindness Spring’s fragrant array. ? Today’s offering is an Oriental Octet. An Oriental Octet is an invented verse form…