Author: Frank J. Tassone

  • Today’s Haiku (September 21, 2019)

    Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 三日月がめそめそといる米の飯  金子兜太 mikazuki ga mesomeso to iru kome no meshi             three-day moon             sobbing…             a bowl of rice                                                 Tohta Kaneko from “Haiku Dai-Saijiki” (“Comprehensive Haiku Saijiki”), Kadokawa Shoten, Tokyo, 2006

  • #Haiku: Autumn Leaves

    Originally posted on Charmed Chaos: https://frankjtassone.files.wordpress.com/2019/09/bench-560435_1280.jpg “She looked like autumn, when leaves turned and fruit ripened.” ― Sarah Addison Allen, Garden Spells burnt sienna haze autumn paints the verdant trees shades of ginger orange

  • Last Stand: a #tankaprose

    A clear sky, with all the radiant sunlight the lawn and leaves can imbibe, and more. A soft breeze that just sets the chimes’ melody with a whisper of song. The cicadas and grasshoppers, along with the non-migratory birds, carry on their own harmony. Not a hint of humidity. Forecasters talk of temperatures reaching the…

  • Maths

    Originally posted on Heed not Steve: he rolls the bones – two more days of summer —- © Steve Mitchell 2019

  • #Haiku Happenings #5: Scott Metz presents a haiku by Gary Hittmeyer!

  • 2019 AFL Grand Final Haiku Kukai

    2019 AFL Grand Final Haiku Kukai

    #Haiku Happenings #4: the AHS presents the 2019 AFL Grand Haiku Kukai! Australian Haiku Society Calling haiku poets (and non-haiku poets alike) all over the world to sharpen your haiku lenses for the 2019 AFL Grand Final Haiku Kukai. This is the 8th annual running of this event in which haiku poets from all corners…

  • My Daily #Haiku (9/21/19)

    9/21/19: banana slug predawn darkness not a banana slug in sight #haiku #micropoetry #poetry

  • wrinkle

    Originally posted on Haiku Gravy: on the dirt trackthe wrinkled man’sevening shadow