Author: Frank J. Tassone

  • day three gogyohka

    Originally posted on Jane Dougherty Writes: ? fatigue swells in ocean waves of back and forth and the tidal eye wanders to wild tulips almost over

  • “waning winter…” a #tanka (3/19/20)

    3/19/20: the rule of three waning winter a Spring Equinox arrives witness this transition during #corona #tanka #micropoetry #poetry

  • Basho’s Haibun “Hiraizumi”: A Commentary

    Originally posted on Ray Rasmussen: All Things Haibun Blog: https://frankjtassone.files.wordpress.com/2020/03/hiraizumi-field.jpg Field at present day Hiraizumi, Japan . . . all that remains of soldiers’ dreams. Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own.” ~Salvatore Quasimodo Bashō’s travel journals, purportedly the…

  • #Haiku: Equinox

    Originally posted on Charmed Chaos: https://frankjtassone.files.wordpress.com/2020/03/birds-4139487_1280.jpg grey Arizona- sky cries for the diseased world while mockingbirds sing Frank J. Tassone Haikai Challenge #130- Equinox

  • Haiku: Spring Equinox

    Haiku: Spring Equinox

    #Haiku Happenings #4: Xenia Trans’ latest haiku for my current #haikai challenge!

  • My Daily #Haiku (3/19/20)

    3/19/20: harvesting the crop spring rain …“Harvester of Sorrow”after all these years #haiku #micropoetry #poetry

  • Daily Haiku: March 19, 2020

    Originally posted on Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog: dawn. . . I watch the New Year spill down the mountain   by Carole MacRury  (USA) Snapshot Press Haiku Calendar, 2016

  • Greet Spring with Courage

    #Haiku Happenings #2: Rhen Laird’s latest #tanka for my current #haikai challenge!