Author: Frank J. Tassone

  • #Haikai Challenge #112 (11/10/19): Veterans Day/Beaver Moon #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka #haiga #renga

    Endured the wind long enough, haijin? Congratulations to last week’s contributors: Haikai Challenge Participants 1. Peter2. Indira3. Jules4. Tessa5. Dwight L. Roth 6. Ken Gierke / rivrvlogr7. Reena Saxena8. Jade Li/Lisa9. Deborah10. Xenia Tran 11. Kerfe Roig12. Linda Lee Lyberg13. Janice Powered by… Mister Linky’s Magical Widgets. Ultreya! November progresses, and here in the Hudson…

  • A November with Basho, Day 9

    Deeply touched by the famous pine at Takekuma, twin trunks just as long ago… reported to have been cut down and replaced several times, it stood like a relic of a thousand years, impossibly perfect. The poet Kyohaka had given me a poem at my departure: remember to show my master the famous Takekuma pine,…

  • My Daily #Haiku (11/9/19)

    11/9/19: rainbow Autumn morning a rainbow of fallen leaves #haiku #micropoetry #poetry

  • Flat 6

    Flat 6

    #Haiku Happenings #3; M.G. Iannucci’s latest #tanka!

  • Haibun 192

    Originally posted on Michael Rehling: did they get you to trade your heroes for ghosts i dunno for sure but sometimes my memories are more real than the moment they were made. strange i know. but i just want to say to anyone reading this that i have my eye on you. crescent moon~ the…

  • Daily Haiku: Nov. 9, 2019

    Originally posted on Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog: a slight rock of grandma’s chair– porch shadows by arvinder kaur (India) Asahi Haikuist Network, March 31, 2017

  • PSA (11/8/19)

    We will attend a college tour at Binghamton University tomorrow. Expect the next A November with Basho, Day 9 later tomorrow, and the #haikai challenge either late tomorrow or Sunday. Busy with business all of this living the dream

  • A November with Basho, Day 8

    Through narrow Abumizuri Pass and on, passing Shiroishi Castle, we entered Kasahima Province. We asked for directions to the gravemound of Lord Sanekata, Sei Shonagon’s exiled poet-lover, and were told to turn right in the hillds near the villages of Minowa and Kasashima wgeb we canes ti tge sgurbe if Dosojin. It lies nearly hidden…