Author: Frank J. Tassone
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My Daily #Haiku (11/26/19)
11/26/19: tea one grazing fawn— a Frappuccino insteadof ginger tea #haiku #micropoetry #poetry
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Autumn Moon Haiku Contest, 2019
Originally posted on My Inner Voice: a refugee child curls up to sleep . . . fallen leaves ایک مہاجر بچہ سمٹ کرسوتےہوے جھڑے ہوے پتے Honourable Mentions Autumn Moon Haiku Contest, November 2019
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#Haiku:Thanksgiving
Originally posted on Charmed Chaos: https://frankjtassone.files.wordpress.com/2019/11/pumpkin-4556140_1280.jpg bountiful harvestautumn colors explodingon Thanksgiving day Frank J. Tassone Haiku Challenge: #114 Thanksgiving
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blessing
Originally posted on K.: We gather together. We close our eyes, unlearning the darkness. We are listening to what happens. When we don’t interfere, when we let go, unbe, untry. When we release our expectations. We hold everything as if it weighed nothing, as if it could fit into anything at all. What we are. …
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A November with Basho, Day 22
Along the road to Yamanaka Hot Springs, Mount Shirane rose behind our backs. At the foot of a mountain to our left we found a small temple to compassionate Kannon. After the retired Emperor Kazan had made a pilgrimage to the thirty-three western temples, he enshrined an image of the bodhisattva Kannon here, naming the…
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Gratitude’s Gate
Originally posted on Na'ama Yehuda: Photo: Aaron Burden on Unsplash ? They stand at the entry, grateful, unknown. They’ve come far for this, on a journey not by choice yet still their own. The sound of people’s voices pluck strings in their soul. The light of the fireplace dances on the wall, painting hope, awakening…
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Come What May
Originally posted on Poetry by Debi Swim: dverse Gratitude Prompt by Frank J. Tassone She lies in her bed day after day, long night after long night, week by week by month by year. Occasionally, she smiles, repeats what we say, mostly she sleeps, mostly she knows nothing but her dreams. She’s ninety-six years old…
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Today’s Haiku (November 25, 2019)
Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 死の側より生照らすごと冬茜 山下智津子 shi no gawa yori sei terasu goto fuyuakane as if it sheds light on a life from the side of a death a winter sunset Chizuko Yamashita from “Haiku-kai” (“Haiku World,” a monthly haiku magazine), November 2016 Issue, Bungaku No…
