Author: Frank J. Tassone
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My Daily #Haiku (4/21/20)
4/21/20: train a train hornafter the rainfades away #haiku #micropoetry #poetry #NaPoWriMo2020 #GloPoWriMo2020
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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)
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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…
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New Moon –
Originally posted on thoughts and entanglements: In lockdown, bright sunny days are lures to resist. The flush of spring was without fanfare, the blooms are on their own No leisurely stroll under cherry blossoms this spring. Nature tips the scale. ? a new moon the earth feels tilted up is down Pat R 4/20/20 For…
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Our Folly, Desire: a #NaPoWriMo2020 / #GloPoWriMo2020 #quadrille – #haibun
We don’t know what we want. We ask, don’t receive. Flush our sleeves with vain tears! We receive, and oh, woe! Unintended consequences, our sorrowful song. “Some quality time at home would be nice…” mispent wish … the gift we can’t keep or give away
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Haiku of Issa: from The Essential Haiku, edited by Robert Hass
Originally posted on Lady Nyo's Weblog: (Painting above by the author below) — I have had “The Essential haiku: Versions of Basho, Buson, and Issa” for a few years and have only really gotten to Basho. But recently reading Issa, (Issa means Cup-of-Tea), the world of haiku opened up in ways I didn’t expect. I…
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Tanka: New Moon
#Haiku Happenings #8: Astrid’s latest #tanka for my current #haikai challenge! Astrid Blogs About… When moon, earth and sun Are in perfect alignment The new moon reveals Through the darkness of the night A constellation of stars With this tanka, I am linking up with Frank J. Tassone’s Haikai Challenge #135, for which the topic…
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New Moon
Originally posted on revivedwriter: NaPoWriMo day 20: a haiku for Frank’s prompt. I hope to post again today, as I have been writing several poems, just without being sure if they are good or not. 😅 Monthly syzygy: Certainly sun’s light still shines, Luna still exists. Photo by samer daboul on Pexels.com
