Author: Frank J. Tassone

  • Such Foolish Fun: a Day 1 #NaPoWriMo/GloPoWriMo2020 #haibun

    We don’t play often. Sure, Mira asks anytime the weather is comfortable, without too much balm or chill. I’m usually the one that refuses. But not today. She rolls her hips, steps into her toss. With a snap of her elbow and a perfect release, she looses the blue frisbee toward me. I keep my…

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    Originally posted on Cat Nap Revue: pavilion boatsset sail to distant lanternsthe river of stars

  • Haiku del giorno – Daily haiku

    Originally posted on Vento del giorno: Ukiyo e by  Kesai Eisen (1790-1848) a casa sola un velo di rossetto per sentirmi viva at home alone a touch of lipstick to feel alive © A M. ?

  • Today’s Haiku (April 1, 2020)

    Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): いちまいの絹のごとしや春の暮   菅原鬨也 ichimai no kinu no gotoshi ya haru no kure             looking like             a sheet of satin—             spring dusk                                                 Tokiya Sugawara from “Haiku Dai-Saijiki” (“Comprehensive Haiku Saijiki”), Kadokawa Shoten, Tokyo, 2006

  • “Pale green grass…” a #Tanka (4/1/20)

    4/1/20: Ganesha pale-green grassgrowing back in againas walkers pass bya Ganesha statuettedoesn’t comfort enough #tanka #micropoetry #poetry #NaPoWriMo2020 #GloPoWriMo2020 #Coronavirus

  • Curfew: Day 8

    #Haiku Happenings #6: Rajani’s latest #haibun!

  • wishful thinking senryü March 31 2020

    Originally posted on Tournesol dans un Jardin: ? alarm clock screams check for updates in Europe bath overflows lunch time break more updates in my backyard my shiny cheeks time to work shifting gears with a groan not always easy wishful thinking stirs up hope a time to pray © tournesol ‘2020/03/31 Daily moments March…

  • My Home Is A Monastery Now

    Originally posted on revivedwriter: On this first day of NaPoWriMo, I am posting a haibun in response to Frank J. Tassone’s prompt about the virus. Almost exactly two years before this quarantine started, I spent my spring break visiting a monastery. I was considering the life of a cloistered nun, as I was very attracted…