Frank J. Tassone

Author: Frank J. Tassone

  • Lily Blues

    Originally posted on Waar mijn pen ligt, ben ik thuis: ©Bob Bouchier lily sings the blues when all hope just fades away in the dusk of time we are far apart to avoid covid-19 so it won’t catch us we’ll stand together lily will be white again once this is over

  • Today’s Haiku (April 15, 2020)

    Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): みほとけの春の愁ひにうつむける　　倉田紘文 mihotoke no haru no urei ni utsumukeru             Buddha statue             he casts down his eyes             with spring melancholy                                                             Koubun Kurata from “Haiku Shiki” (“Haiku Four Seasons,” a monthly haiku magazine), July 2010 Issue, Tokyo Shiki Shuppan, Tokyo

  • My Daily #Haiku (4/15/20)

    4/15/20: basket wisteria blooma picnic basket packedfor the backyard #haiku #micropoetry #poetry #NaPoWriMo2020 #GloPoWriMo2020 #coronavirus

  • Windy woods

    Originally posted on Bill Waters ~~ Haiku: windy woods — the clack and squeak of branches *    *    *    *

  • trust in the universe ~ Haibun ~ April 15/20

    Originally posted on Tournesol dans un Jardin: Three hours of sleep reads her Fitbit. Hmmm, that’s odd, and yet she feels refreshed this morning. She runs a bath and prepares her coffee at the same time. She seems to have energy today despite the lack of sleep. She strips her bed and prepares for laundry…

  • Haibun: Lilies

    #Haiku Happenings #1 (4/15/20): Mosshawk’s latest #haibun for my current #Haikai challenge!

  • Publication Alert! (4/15/20)

    I happy to have the following haiku appear in the Haiku Foundation’s Haiku Dialogue today! Thank you, Tia Haynes! Congratulations, haijin!

  • The Inspirations of Mentors: a #NaPoWriMo2020 / #GloPoWriMo2020 #haibun

    I call three poets my mentors: three women, three masters, three exemplars of the art A head bowed in awe Constance Coiner introduced me to Carolyn Forche. The poet was one of the modern American women writers we studied in Professor Coiner’s course of the same name. Forche’s The Country Between Us was the work…