Author: Frank J. Tassone

  • #Haikai Challenge #121 (1/13/20): take down pine (decorations) (matsu osame) #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka #haiga #renga

    Hope you enjoyed your wolf moon gazing, haijin! Congratulations to this week’s contributors: Haikai Challenge Participants 1. Eugenia2. Tessa3. Jules4. Jane Dougherty5. Jade Li/Lisa6. Dwight L. Roth 7. Jen Goldie8. Petru Viljoen9. Janice10. Revived Writer11. Peter12. Indira 13. Christine14. gillena15. Kerfe16. Linda Lee Lyberg Powered by… Mister Linky’s Magical Widgets. Ultreya! The New York Metropolitan…

  • New Beginnings … first sunray

    Originally posted on PHOENIX: first sunrays – a bridge of light spreads out on the calm sea Photo&Haiku : Virginia Popescu Carpe diem – New Beginnings … first sunray

  • World Haiku Series 2019 (27) Haiku by Christiane Ranieri

    Originally posted on Akita International Haiku Network: World Haiku Series 2019 (27) Haiku by Christiane Ranieri ? without luggage over the clouds  a kite  ? 荷物なし 雲の上 凧 ? birthday — in my daughter’s hair a woman’s perfume ? お誕生日― 娘の髪に 女性の香水 ? chrysanthemums one by one flowering again my thoughts for him ? 菊…

  • Monoku

    Originally posted on Vento del giorno: la silenziosa tristezza di tulipani spenti the silent sadness of dull tulips A.M.

  • My Daily #Haiku (1/13/20)

    1/13/20: first temple or garden first Massonly two Sundays afterNew Year’s Day #haiku #senryu #micropoetry #poetry

  • #Haiku: Wolf Moon

    Originally posted on Charmed Chaos: https://frankjtassone.files.wordpress.com/2020/01/full-moon-1775764_1280.jpg wolf moon risingluminous in eastern skytelling mysteries Hakai Challenge #120: Wolf Moon

  • penumbral

    Originally posted on K.: almost a shadow almost an echo between vast uncertainties hidden voices wandering the uncharted borderlines This year’s Wolf Moon comes with a penumbral eclipse.  For Frank Tassone’s #Haikai Challenge #120, and also linked to OLN on dVerse, hosted by Grace. This is a watercolor with a moon photo collaged on top.…

  • Beginning Again

    Originally posted on revivedwriter: I’m a little behind on prompts, so this poem is for Frank’s haikai challenge about the Wolf Moon, DVerse’s haibun Monday about beginnings, and JusJoJan day 7, “mix.” At the beginning of this year, I think of the last — a mixture of joyous and difficult, heavy on the bitterness — and…