Author: Frank J. Tassone

  • UNTITLED COVID Senryu

    Originally posted on pictured words: The Maumee Indoor “Closed until further notice.” A sign of the times. (c) Marie Elena Good, 2020 #seventeenintwenty I did not take this photo, and do not know who did.  I had to run to the post office today, and saw the sign on our beloved “Maumee Indoor,” on my…

  • no more thoughts

    #Haiku Happenings #4: Kenneth Daniels’ latest haiku!

  • My Daily #Haiku (5/8/20)

    5/8/20: abscess rain-soaked grass —the abscess abovethe wisdom tooth #haiku #micropoetry #poetry

  • Today’s Haiku (May 8, 2020)

    Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 蒼天の高さを知つてをる雲雀  高橋将夫 sôten no takasa o shitteoru hibari             it knows             the height of the blue sky             a skylark                                                 Masao Takahashi from “Haiku-kai” (“Haiku World,” a monthly haiku magazine), March 2017 Issue, Bungaku No Mori, Tokyo

  • spring blossoms ~ haiku

    Originally posted on rivrvlogr: spring blossoms on the horizon flower moon This haiku is my response to Frank Tassone’s #Haikai Challenge – Flower Moon and Colleen’s #Tanka Tuesday #Poetry Challenge No. 176: #Poet’sChoice. Image: super moon, 5:00am CST, 07 May 2020 (click image for larger view in new tab) ?

  • The May Full Moon

    Originally posted on revivedwriter: This is for Frank’s haikai challenge about the Flower Moon, which happens to be tonight. Also, May is the month when Catholics honor Mary in a special way, and one of the traditional activities is called a May Crowning. Here is a picture from one that I participated in last year.…

  • An Encore of “This #Corona: a Day 10 #NaPoWriMo2020 / #GloPoWriMo2020 #Hay(nu)ku #sonnet”

    sunlight … passing clouds and sudden flurries this Good Friday only streaming Stations quarantine living our novam viam crucis folly those people slighting this #Corona this “Mask of the Red Death“

  • “fragrant breeze…” a #tanka (5/7/20)

    5/7/20: butterflies fragrant breeze a butterfly breaks through its chrysalis in the time of Corona may we find our way #tanka #micropoetry #poetry #coronavirus