Author: Frank J. Tassone

  • #Haikai Challenge #99 (8/10/19): Sturgeon Moon #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka #haiga #renga

    #Haiku Happenings #2: Tessa’s latest haiku for my current #haikai challenge!

  • Haibun: August Moon

    Haibun: August Moon

    #Haiku Happenings #1 (8/13/19): Xenia Tran’s latest #haibun for my current #haikai challenge!

  • The great leader’s shadow

    Originally posted on the other bunny: I go to see the great leader’s statue, but it is too hot, so I step into his great shadow. Immediately I hear the tinkling of a stream. When my eyes adjust to the darkness I make out a young boy standing close to me, along with his goat.…

  • Mare Tranquillitatis’ “visiting…”

    Haiku Happenings #8: Eva Limbach’s one-line haiku appears in Under the Basho! visiting an old friend this single cloud

  • invisible – – haiku

    Originally posted on Ontheland: by the clothesline fine silk from post to tree spider-spun . . mid-air caught in an invisible web the tiny fly . . The long fine thread extending several yards from hook to tree is barely visible in photo centre. ©️2019 Ontheland

  • “more cicada songs…” a #tanka (8/12/19)

    8/12/19: cure more cicada songs “I will always love you” by The Cure earworms me as another August day heats up to eighty-seven #tanka #micropoetry #poetry

  • Esturgeon

    Originally posted on Jane Dougherty Writes: For Frank Tassone’s haikai challenge. The sturgeon, another creature we prize so highly we’re wiping it from the face of the earth. We don’t have a sturgeon moon here, but we do apparently have the last remaining population of European sturgeon living in our river Garonne. Numbers reduced to…

  • #Haiku: Sturgeon Moon

    Originally posted on Charmed Chaos: https://frankjtassone.files.wordpress.com/2019/08/river-967603_1280.jpg night; river fishing sturgeon moon lighting dark sky cork bobbing on glass Frank J. Tassone Weekly Hakai Challenge #99 Sturgeon Moon