Author: Frank J. Tassone
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Contingencies
Originally posted on K.: Enmeshed by expectations, I keep spinning into tangles of self-imposed tempests. Where is the thread that will uncoil the gyring currents and release my thoughts into exhalations that echo with waves of light? spirit of the wind zephrean lullaby dance me with dream dust A quadrille haibun using dVerse host Kim’s…
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my Daily #Haiku (11/5/19)
11/5/19: mirror morning stillness shower mist on the mirror #haiku #micropoetry #poetry
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#Haiku Happenings #3: Scott Metz presents haiku by Peter Jastermsky!
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[haiku] bashō and haiku
Originally posted on TheGuern: Paul Guernsey, © 2019
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mid-air
Originally posted on Haiku Gravy: raindrops falling on falling leaves
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A November with Basho, Day 4
Set out to see the Murder Stone, Sessho-seki, on a borrowed horse, and the man leading it asked for a poem. “Something beautiful, please.” The horse turns his head– from across the wide plain, a cuckoo’s cry Basho, “Narrow Road to the Interior,” Translated by Sam Hamil, The Essential Basho, pg. 8-9 Another Momento Mori…
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life plans
Originally posted on Ontheland: life plans trailing the sun few birds twitter this cold November night a shift to C minor . . ©️2019 Ontheland Inspired by November with Basho Day 2: Very Early on the twenty-seventh morning of the third moon, under a predawn haze, transparent moon barely visible, Mount Fuji just a shadow,…
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Salt Rock
Originally posted on Icebox: Slankamen (lit. ‘Salt-rock’) is a port village sandwiched, like a slice of ham (today roasted), between precipitous loess hills and an inlet of the Danube, where the water hardly moves at all. Mum and I approach the village on a descending serpentine road incised into brittle, yellowish sediments. Alas, no chance…
