Author: Frank J. Tassone

  • Haiku 4.21

    Originally posted on whimsy~mimsy: blue sky overhead dandelions sprinkled on a wide field of green

  • “empty room…” a #tanka (4/21/20)

    4/21/20: unprompted empty room the silence after the last echoes of their voices fade away #tanka #micropoetry #poetry #NaPoWriMo2020 #GloPoWriMo2020

  • Daily Life These Days

    Originally posted on Poems From Oostburg, Wisconsin: Early morning, and I sit in silence for a time. An old haiku: cup of coffeeby the waterthis day to God Lake Michigan water levels are at record highs. Then I cook a healthy breakfast, and stay current with the news. Check my WordPress reader, and always so…

  • 2773

    Originally posted on Cat Nap Revue: the old porch stepsafter a morning rainshingles of blue sky

  • Strange days…

    Originally posted on seaviewwarrenpoint: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3NV_xAMUWM

  • My Daily #Haiku (4/21/20)

    4/21/20: train a train hornafter the rainfades away #haiku #micropoetry #poetry #NaPoWriMo2020 #GloPoWriMo2020

  • Today’s Haiku (April 21, 2020)

    Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): つばめつばめ泥が好きなる燕かな  細見綾子 tsubame tsubame doro ga sukinaru tsubame kana             sparrow, sparrow…             the sparrow that loves             mud                                                 Ayako Hosomi from ‘Haidan,’ (‘Haiku Stage’) a monthly haiku magazine, April 2017 Issue, Honami Shoten, Tokyo Fay’s Note: Ayako Hosomi  (1907-1997)

  • because the night

    Originally posted on K.: What ritual words should I offer to the absent moon’s shadow?  A love potion that merges opposite energies into absolute stillness?  A howl that resets the journey and flushes away the dark tides with glittering waves of stars? what is not fills to overflowing A quadrille about the new moon for…