Author: Frank J. Tassone

  • Haiku: Songs in the Grass

    Haiku: Songs in the Grass

    #Haiku Happenings #4: Xenia Tran’s latest haiku appears in THF’s Haiku Dialogue!

  • My Daily #Haiku (8/15/19)

    morning confession a step into sunlight and cicada songs

  • Scarlet Pimpernel

    Originally posted on PHOENIX: Summer stars shining in the grass – scarlet pimpernels Haiku : Virginia Popescu Carpe diem – Scarlet Pimpernel

  • Deep summer

    Originally posted on Bill Waters ~~ Haiku: deep summer . . . from all directions cicada-song *    *    *    *

  • August Moon

    Originally posted on K.: night wears luminous scales—I feel its pulses through invisible nets time resolves into kinship– everything opened, laid bare what has been follows like a shadow, until it too is discarded stitched into shining patterns ancient and always brand new A double tanka in honor of August’s Sturgeon Moon for Colleen’s #TankaTuesday…

  • “the black clouds…” a #tanka (8/13/19)

    8/13/19: prompt-free (bright and black): the black clouds of another thunderstorm yesterday’s bright sky a sighing memory so like this summer passing away #tanka #micropoetry #poetry for Colleen’s 2019 Weekly #Tanka Tuesday #Poetry Challenge No. 140 #SynonymsOnly

  • Perseids

    Originally posted on Jane Dougherty Writes: image ©Radoslaw Ziomber a rain of stars falls on the thirsty earth portents ? watching the sky listening to hunting owls calling down the stars ? from moonset to cockcrow I watch the star blanket shift learning to let go

  • Huddle

    Originally posted on haiku tree: monsoon quails huddle and coo behind the shed ?