Author: Frank J. Tassone

  • Today’s Haiku (March 28, 2020)

    Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 竹の秋地中に鏡眠りおり  曾根 毅 take no aki chichû ni kagami nemuriori             bamboo in autumn color             a mirror sleeps             underground                                                 Tsuyoshi Sone from “Kashû” (Blossom Study), haiku collection of Tsuyoshi Sone, Shinya-Soh sha, Tokyo 2015 Fay’s Note:  ‘take no aki’ (literal translation: bamboo’s autumn) is…

  • A Blossoming Hope

    An early peak of cherry blossoms in Washington DC this year, and who came to see it? Some did, risking their own health (and that of others’), to witness the blooms. The rest of us see only the photos. Is that enough? Outside my window, a blanket of gray covers the sky. The maples and…

  • against

    Originally posted on whimsy~mimsy: rain tapping windows tree limbs’ shadows on the wall your breath down my spine

  • Second

    Originally posted on haiku tree: water drops fall from the eaves second rain ?

  • Daily Haiku: March 28, 2020

    Originally posted on Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog: winter commute scent of roses from a street vendor by Eufemia Griffo (Italy) Hedgerow, #110, 2017 ?

  • My Daily #Haiku (3/28/20)

    3/28/20: winter mountain spring rain —the stranded on Everestfinally freed #haiku #micropoetry #poetry

  • Kepp calm and read a haiku…(15)

    Originally posted on WHITE SKIES: last tram home the north star sits alone in a darkening sky .

  • Haiku # 675

    Originally posted on Rooted in Love: https://frankjtassone.files.wordpress.com/2020/03/90474939_10162648848220538_5061636666486161408_o.jpg Batroun, Lebanon, March 2020 My touch in her skina wave at dawn unfurlinga white frothing sea ~ Minuit…dans son visage brulela flamme du sommeil ~ His toucha warm sunlight fillingthe cracks in her soul ~ https://frankjtassone.files.wordpress.com/2020/03/90980008_10162708149825538_3895225781999108096_o.jpg Batroun, Lebanon, March 2020 Spring twilightI sip my tea and gazeat the…