Author: Frank J. Tassone

  • David Oates (U.S.A.)

    Originally posted on Harusame: first love the sun strikes a dusting of snow Comment: just as love warms the poet’s heart, so the sunlight (hi 日) in line 2 hits the snow (yuki 雪), favoring different suggestions in the reader’s mind. First love (hatsukoi 初恋) is usually selfless and unconditional; it provides us a valuable…

  • Haiku del giorno – Daily haiku

    Originally posted on Vento del giorno: Spring Blossom and Lonely Street by Chin H Shin  ? solo io e me primavera di carta alla finestra just me and me paper spring at the window © A.M.

  • Mare Tranquillitatis’ “I never imagined…”

    #Haiku Happenings #4: Eva Limbach’s latest #senryu appears in Prune Juice! I never imagined missing you so badly … rusty snow shovel Mare Tranquillitatis

  • My Daily #Haiku (2/29/20)

    2/29/20: moon waxing gibbous …grazing in the backyardwhite-tail deer #NaHaiWriMo2020 #haiku #micropoetry #poetry

  • Escape

    Originally posted on haiku tree: 1 a.m. staring into a void I can’t escape ?

  • art of seeing xv

    Originally posted on a meditative journey : the sound of waves drawing near, I become part of the winter scene Kuroda Momoko cited: Makoto Ueda, Far Beyond the Field https://frankjtassone.files.wordpress.com/2020/02/artofseeingxvdarkonlight.jpg winterwalk… Horsetooth Reservoir Nikon D750 f/5 1/1000 85mm 800 ISO dark figure on light ground… 8 of 10

  • Haiku sequence: Changeable

    Originally posted on Jane Dougherty Writes: ? yellow face broad and smiling—gold-plated sunshine flower ? such green growth though the wind howls grass stalks bend not breaking ? still it rains not still the sky mirror where water leaps

  • the bowl – – tanka

    Originally posted on Ontheland: drying her orange bowl I think of Mom in the kitchen where I sense her still . . ©️2020 Ontheland