Frank J. Tassone

Author: Frank J. Tassone

  • Social Shakespearean Note: a #NaPoWriMo2020 / #GloPoWriMo2020 sole #Renga

    “To thine own self, be true…” Polonius, “Hamlet” Act 1, scene 3. an April night like any other, except it’s the Bard’s birthday “What of it, when scholars say legions of monkeys will do?” a starless sky and the debate over his relevance goes on “What can Shakespeare say to us that televised moon landings?”…

  • Curfew: Day 30

    Originally posted on THOUGHT PURGE: How did a tiny pathogen, pressing down on a fault line, break our world – split it wide open, so half of humanity now walks the tightrope between disease and hunger, life and despair clutched evenly in both hands? As if the universe has opened its third eye, as if…

  • Drama

    Originally posted on haiku tree: 3 a.m. last night’s drama still on my mind ?

  • Becoming my mother . . .

    Originally posted on A Poet in Time: ? ? A Thousand Voices, 2019 Tanka Society of America Member’s Anthology   sweet peas, crab apple blossoms and old roses— for part of each day I become my mother ? ?

  • “fresh birdsongs…” a #tanka (4/23/20)

    4/23/20: promt-free fresh birdsongs the magnolias beside the Mahwah delta a southern-looking landscape in suburban New York #tanka #micropoetry #poetry

  • Today’s Haiku (April 23, 2020)

    Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 石鹸玉天衣無縫のヒポクリット　　　　中村草田男 shabondama tenimuhô no hipokuritto             soap bubble             a carefree life             of a hypocrite                                                 Kusatao Nakamura from “Haiku Dai-Saijiki” (“Comprehensive Haiku Saijiki”), Kadokawa Shoten, Tokyo, 2006 Fay’s Note: Kusatao Nakamura (1901-1983) ?

  • new moon earth day – – haibun

    Originally posted on Ontheland: Yesterday was to be a personal ‘holiday’. . . a promise to myself. new moon the invitation of darkness What better time to tend body and soul than an auspicious conjunction of darkness and hope… Earth Day at home dreams of new beginnings And then life chose its own course. Today…

  • #Haikai Challenge #135 (4/18/20): New Moon #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka #haiga #renga

    Originally posted on Stine Writing: Written for Frank Tassone’s Haikai Challenge: https://frankjtassone.com/2020/04/18/haikai-challenge-135-4-18-20-new-moon-haiku-senryu-haibun-tanka-haiga-renga/ New moon A new moon reveals light to hide the darkness of  death of the old moon.   ©2020 CBialczak Poetry