Author: Frank J. Tassone

  • 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

  • The Haiku Hecameron

    #Haiku Happenings #5: The AHS presents an invitation from Scott Mason to submit to the Haiku Hecameron! Australian Haiku Society An invitation from Scott Mason SUBMISSION GUIDELINES forThe Haiku Hecameron What The Haiku Hecameron will be a volume featuring the haiku-related work of 100 haiku poets worldwide with each piece created in the spirit of…

  • Haiku and Masters of Japanese prints

    Originally posted on Stella Pierides: Great news about the project arranged by Alan Summers, Karen Hoy, and Bertel Martin in collaboration with the Bristol Museum and Art Gallery. Haiku sent by a number of haiku poets (one of mine included), were matched with Japanese block prints and are now displayed on the Museum website. A…

  • My Daily #Haiku (3/21/20)

    3/22/20: scarecrow Spring skyall alone in the fieldweathered scarecrow #haiku #micropoetry #poetry

  • tall shadows – – haiku

    Originally posted on Ontheland: tall shadows falling before the rising sun . . ©️2020 Ontheland

  • Pamela A. Babusci (U.S.A.)

    Originally posted on Harusame: stinging sleet her words sharper than scissors Comment: in this haiku, the stinging sleet in line 1 nicely juxtaposes with the biting words of the woman depicted in the closing lines. However, while the first ku substantiates a vertical and uncontrolled movement – given by the random fall of the flakes…