Author: Frank J. Tassone

  • haiku: the sound of geese…

    Originally posted on Haiku For Living: ? . ? the sound of geese from watery meadows and then … ? ? ? ? .

  • Sedoka week I (Sunday)

    Originally posted on Poet's Corner: 1 of 7 Waxing lyrical It is now with Sedoka for more flexibility With these crafted words that in these next seven days I will capture parts of life ©Jemverse Sedoka is a japanese poetry form comprising 38 syllables spread over 6 non-rhyming lines with a syllabic sequence of 5,7,7,…

  • Writing About Cherry Blossoms

    Originally posted on William Michaelian: Yesterday morning we drove past the cherry trees in the park across from the state capitol. Given the chilly weather lately — there was even some snow on the ground in the hilly areas around town — it will be many days yet before they are at the peak of…

  • #SilentSaturday (4/4/20)

    Now, a rest from #haiku See you tomorrow!

  • PSA: Schedule Change for Today (4/4/20)

    Good Morning, haijin and haikai poetry lovers! Just giving you a heads-up that I limiting my blogging today. Expect the #haikai challenge a full day’s regiment tomorrow. Stay healthy and safe! bobbing leaves from out of the clouds morning sun

  • Home Street Surrealism: a Day 4 #NaPoWriMo2020 / #GloPoWriMo2020 #haibun

    Am I asphalt. Am I blacktop and asphalt. Am I slanted and straight. What is slanted and straight. What is asphalt. What is the wind-swept lane that I am. What is the wind. What the wind is. an empty street Who lives on 24. Who works from home on 24. Who looks out a bay…

  • My Daily #Haiku (4/4/20)

    4/4/20: wings raven flightall the closed churches sincewe sang “On Eagles Wings” #haiku #micropoetry #poetry #NaPoWriMo2020 #GloPoWriMo2020 #CoronaVirus

  • Follow a Lone Crow: a Day 3 #NaPoWriMo/GloPoWriMo2020 solo #Renga

    gray sky the back-and-forth swaying of bare branches a street suddenly empty of pedestrians a wrapped package left out on the front stoop trembling hands heart racing just entering the local supermarket A descending crow in flight no sign of its murder so silent within these closing-in walls another Friday A caught breath at every…