Author: Frank J. Tassone

  • Today’s Haiku (April 13, 2020)

    Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 幹に手を当てて桜の言ふことを  後藤比奈夫 miki nit e o atete sakura no iu koto o my hands touching the trunk I listen to what the cherry tree says                                                 Hinao Goto from ‘Haidan,’ (‘Haiku Stage’) a monthly haiku magazine, June 2017 Issue, Honami Shoten, Tokyo

  • Haibun: Looking Back

    Haibun: Looking Back

    #Haiku Happenings #4: Xenia Trans’ latest #haibun for my current #haikai challenge!

  • My Daily #Haiku (4/13/20)

    4/13/20: hole April showers …another day downthe CoVid rabbit hole #haiku #micropoetry #poetry #NaPoWriMo2020 #GloPoWriMo2020 #coronavirus

  • nd 4.12 trying times 3p – Jules Pens Some Gems…

    #Haiku Happenings #3: Jules’ latest solo #renga for my current #haikai challenge! trying times white lily past prime heady gentle perfume wafts through clumsy girls mask what to do with rough edges of emotions; bad poet… spills same psalm prayer – stuff ‘em in the urn; ashes, different words – death is there any true…

  • Haikai Challenge #134: Easter Lily

    Originally posted on Tao-Talk: Among the crocus, A rainbow Easter lily Rises this morning. Hummingbirds and butterflies Somersault, waiting their turns. Frank J. Tassone is the host of Haikai Challenge.  Frank says: Write the haikai poem of your choice (haiku, senryu, haibun, tanka, haiga, renga, etc.) that alludes to the Easter Lily.

  • Blossoming Violence

    Blossoming Violence

    #Haiku Happenings #1 (4/13/20): Dave Madden’s latest #senryu for my current #haikai challenge!

  • Rise this Easter: a Day 12 #NaPoWriMo2020 / #GloPoWriMo2020 #sedoko – #triolet – #haibun

    No one witnessed the ressurection event. Apostles witnessed the ressurected Jesus. Witness the irony: Light rising in the dark. coronal Easter still an empty tomb to celebrate Two-millenia and twenty years later, Christians celebrate–and this year, at home. Some may sigh over that, full of unwept tears. But do we celebrate with a Spirit of…

  • Haikai Challenge #134 (4/12/20): Easter Lily #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka #haiga #renga

    Have you enjoyed your birdsong serenades, haijin? Congratulations to last week’s contributors! Haikai Challenge Participants 1. Dave Madden2. joem18b3. Li/Lisa4. Rhen Laird 5. Jane Dougherty6. Peter7. Janice8. Eugenia 9. Kerfe Roig10. Jules Powered by… Mister Linky’s Magical Widgets. Looking ahead: Happy Easter! Another year, another #haikai challenge on Easter Sunday. As I said last year:…