Author: Frank J. Tassone
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Anniversary: 3 years of Haikai Matters!
Delighted to celebrate my third anniversary today! Thank you for sharing this haikai journey with me! poem by poem letting everyone know haikai matters
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Lepidopteric* Encounters: An .@ImageCurve #haibun
We step through the second door, entering the arbortorium, and feel saturated by semi-tropical heat and humidity! Large palms and other representative flora grow out of the center. The palm branches shelter the pathways. All around are the butterflies. A large one with brown, splotchy wings lands on Frankie’s head. He’s seated on one of…
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Today’s Haiku (October 1, 2019)
Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): はじまりはヲロチの涙秋の川 大谷弘至 hajimari wa orochi no namida aki no kawa its beginning is monster serpent’s tears autumn river Hiroshi Ohtani from ‘Haidan,’ (‘Haiku Stage’) a monthly haiku magazine, Octoberl 2016 Issue, Honami Shoten, Tokyo
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Warp and Weft ~ Images and Words: The Heron’s Nest, Vol. 21, Number 3, September 2019
#Haiku Happenings #8: Debbie Strange’s latest haiku appears in the Heron’s Nest! summer solstice the length of a beaver’s incisors deserted farm the random acts of hollyhocks Warp and Weft ~ Images and Words: The Heron’s Nest, Vol. 21, Number 3, September 2019
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late summer
Originally posted on Shore/lines: Otata #49, October 2019 late summer wingbeat by wingbeat golden-ringed dragonfly
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Publication Announcement (10/1/19)
Happy to have one of my haiku published in “A Moment’s Longing,” the Haiku Society of America’s Members’ Anthology 2019. In case anyone has trouble seeing the photo: winter sun a shallow understanding of the problem “A Moment’s Longing” p. 65, HSA Members’ Anthology 2019, Tayna McDonald, Editor Thank you, Tayna McDonald, for all of…
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“low flying hawk…” a #tanka (10/1/19)
10/1/19: unprompted low-flying hawk another sip of mediocre red oh, but to be there now instead of waiting here! #tanka #micropoetry #poetry
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two ‘ku
Originally posted on weird laburnum: distended howl of a wolf spins stars cloud gazing a fish wearing cowboy boots Veronika Zora Novak