Author: Frank J. Tassone

  • Mare Tranquillitatis

    Haiku Happenings #2: Eva Limbach’s latest haiku appears in THF’s A Sense of Place! windfall – a sunray touches my pencil point A Sense of Place Mare Tranquillitatis

  • going up in smoke

    Originally posted on Haiku Gravy: autumn cloudsthe incinerator’sdisappearing chimney

  • “nightfall…” a #tanka (10/24/19)

    10/24/19: unprompted nightfall how long before the last song from the crickets? how long before a full night’s rest and recuperation? #tanka #micropoetry #poetry

  • #Haiku: Crows

    Originally posted on Charmed Chaos: https://frankjtassone.files.wordpress.com/2019/10/jacob-mejicanos-8xbnhu3vfyw-unsplash.jpg black crows on stone crossgazing up at pebble grey skywaiting for raindrops Carpe Diem Haiku Kai: #1768 Crows

  • Tanka with polytoton

    Originally posted on lillian the home poet: Shadowed moon flickers on windblown cornstalk stubble. Red fox stalks its prey, hunting through snow covered field. Hunter in wool cap takes aim. Frank hosts dVerse tonight, the virtual pub for poets. We are to consider the polytoton: rhetorical repetition of words within a poem, but each time used in…

  • autumn colour – – haiku

    Originally posted on Ontheland: autumn colour in a bowl of hot soup summer returns . . ©️2019 Ontheland

  • My Daily #Haiku (10/24/19)

    10/24/19: hospital room Autumn chill Mom’s hospital room has someone new haiku #micropoetry #poetry

  • Today’s Haiku (October 24, 2019)

    Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 本棚のリルケ詩集や青蜜柑  米田清文 hondana no riruke shishû ya aomikan             Rilke’s poetry collection             in the bookshelf–             green tangerines                                                 Kiyofumi Yoneta from ‘Kakyô” (‘Home Country’), a haiku collection of Kiyofumi Yoneda, Furansu-do, Tokyo, 2017 Fay’s Note:  ‘aomikan’ (green tangerine orange) is an autumn kigo.   FYI: …