Author: Frank J. Tassone

  • The Tao of War and Peace: a #PiDay #TankaProse

    Our anonymous ancestors discovered fire. They lit their nights thereafter. Apex predators that had preyed on them before felt fear evermore. Cooked meat freed their metabolisms to generate cognitive growth. How long after did the first of our anonymous ancestors turn fire against another? Was its use the first weapon of mass destruction, in a…

  • Daily Haiku: March 14, 2020

    Originally posted on Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog: the way one song sticks summer sweat ? by Glenn G. Coats (USA) Acorn, Spring 2017

  • Snores

    Originally posted on haiku tree: 2 a.m. cat howls drown out dog snores ?

  • Haiku nei giorni del virus – Haiku in the virus days

    Originally posted on Vento del giorno: Josef Sudek social distancing the warmth of a voice from the cellphone ? tutti a distanza il calore di una voce dal cellulare ? pandemic I try to remember the smell of hay ? pandemia cerco di ricordare l’odore del fieno © A.M. ? ? ? ? ?

  • “My Corona…” a #haibun

    All around us, the lists: Wash your hands Keep your hands away from your face Cough in your elbow or inside your shirt Wash you hands In such pandemic times, even simple tasks like shopping take on Herculean proportions. Mira managed to grab the last four-pack of toilet paper left on the shelves at the…

  • Neighbors

    Originally posted on haiku tree: a u-haul truck blocks the street new neighbors ?

  • March rain – – haiku

    Originally posted on Ontheland: March rain washing the last snow a chorus of birds . . ©️2020 Ontheland

  • Today’s Haiku (March 13, 2020)

    Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 意地悪のふつと愉しき辛夷の芽  ふけとしこ ijiwaru no futto tanoshiki kobushi no me                   unexpectedly                   I enjoy being nasty…                   kobus magnolia buds    …