Author: Frank J. Tassone

  • #Haikai Challenge #132 (3/28/20) Coronavirus (Covid-19) #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka #haiga #renga

    I hope you enjoyed your (hopefully virtual) cherry blossom viewing. Congratulations to last week’s contributors: Haikai Challenge Participants 1. Eugenia2. Susan Zutautas3. Jane Dougherty4. Christine5. joem18b6. Pat R 7. Rhen Laird8. Li/Lisa9. Dave Madden10. Peter11. Kerfe Roig12. Janice 13. Jules14. Jayanth15. Linda Lee Lyberg 16. Frank J. Tassone Powered by… Mister Linky’s Magical Widgets. Onward!…

  • Imaginary

    Originally posted on thoughts and entanglements: My daughter is an only child. She often played alone. As a child, her toys would be out. And she would be having these conversations with her dolls. Or, so I thought. I learned that the ‘person’ she had been talking to had a name. His name was Michael,…

  • Haiku del giorno – Daily haiku

    Originally posted on Vento del giorno: Klaudia Raczek lockdown non trovo più parole di primavera lockdown I don’t find anymore words of spring © A.M.

  • 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 ?