Author: Frank J. Tassone

  • gogyohka for spring confinement

    Originally posted on Jane Dougherty Writes: I took a lot of photos yesterday but the light was too strong and the colours came out lurid. Internet is beginning to get flaky here, erratic and extremely slow so I can’t upload the pictures anyway. This one will have to do for now, colours toned down to…

  • My Daily #Haiku (3/22/20)

    3/22/20: winter stars #corona updates …missing all thosewinter stars #haiku #micropoetry #poetry

  • Snuggles

    Originally posted on haiku tree: sleeping in the dog snuggles and licks my face ?

  • threshold

    Originally posted on Haiku Gravy: midday doorstep between sun and radio

  • Today’s Haiku (March 22, 2020)

    Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 砂を吐く浅蜊に余罪あるごとく  堀切克洋 suna o haku asari ni yozai aru gotoku             ‘asari’ clams spit sand             as though they would have             other crimes                                                 Katsuhiro Horikiri from “Shakutori no Michi” (Inchworm Road), haiku collection of Katsuhiro Horikiri, Bungaku no Mori, Tokyo 2018 Fay’s Note:  ‘asari’…

  • PSA: #Haikai Challenge will appear tomorrow

    A great day of hiking precludes extensive #haikai blogging. Therefore, the #Haikai Challenge for this coming week appears tomorrow. Expect it when you see it! Spring suprises an opportunity to write #haikai comes soon

  • A Spring Respite: a #tankaprose

    Sunlight blinks from the rippling surface of Pine Meadow Lake like a swarm of fireflies. A gentle spring wind off the lake sends a subtle chill up our spine. I sit burmese style and stare at the rippling water in the shade. A two-hour hike out of Kakiat Park brought us to this novel shore.…

  • Dave Read's "adrift at sea…"

    Haiku Happenings #6: Dave Read’s latest haiku! adrift at sea the god we pray to waves  http://davereadpoetry.blogspot.com/2020/03/blog-post_21.html