Author: Frank J. Tassone

  • What’s Underneath?

    Resevoirs of underground water rise up through awakening roots. Buds unfold to growing leaves on once-dormant trees. Forsythias bloomed and daffodils sprouted. Cherry and Dogwood trees blossomed. Dill pierced the top soil between innumeral blades of growing grass. All from what has arisen from underneath. We, living in social isolation, may witness from our windows,…

  • My Daily #Haiku (4/12/20)

    4/12/20: boots Easterher boots still occupythe coat closet #haiku #senryu #micropoetry #poetry #NaPoWriMo2020 #GloPoWriMo2020

  • Just a Coronal-getaway Hike: a Day 11 #NaPoWriMo2020 / #GloPoWriMo2020 #haibun

    We continue our Corona-time ritual of taking our weekly hike. Only this time, we bring gloves, garbage bags and a claw utensil with us. Frank needs six (6) service hours to advance to the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) rank of Life. He’ll earn three (3) of them by cleaning up a trail that we…

  • Morning Counterpoint ( my second-latest .@ImageCurve #haibun)

    That ticking clock. An electric hum. The gurgle of dripping coffee. Louder highway traffic. A gradual brightening of the sky above the Maple Six AM reflection… lines under my eyes Photo by Yaniv Knobel on Unsplash first published in Image Curve, April 2, 2020

  • A boy and his dog

    Originally posted on Tidbits by Shannon: Day 10 NaPoWriMo’s prompt was a curious one: write a hay(na)ku, which is a variant on the haiku. A hay(na)ku is a three-line stanza, with one word for line one, two wors for line two, and three words for line three.Several can be chained together in one poem.

  • Keep calm and read a haiku…(29)

    Originally posted on WHITE SKIES: sleepless night a fawn’s cry breaks the silence (hedgerow journal #130) .

  • Tanka # 200

    Originally posted on Rooted in Love: Between his handsher yearning bodybecame an altaroffering its wineto the tremor of his lips ~ Night over the woods –alonein their cabin,her face buriedin the pit of his neck.

  • My Daily #Haiku (4/11/20)

    4/11/20: clouds Holy Saturdaycottonball cumulusdrifting by #haiku #micropoetry #poetry #NaPoWriMo2020 #GloPoWriMo2020