Author: Frank J. Tassone

  • Hope out of Hiroshima

    What is it like to look up from the shadowed outlines burned into the walls? Where can one go to see through the black rain? How can all of the tears be dried when the shattered ruins of murdered cities lay all around? Only one people have answered that question. They rose. Yes, with the…

  • Haiku: A Field of Flowers

    Haiku: A Field of Flowers

    #Haiku Happenings #9: Xenia Tran’s latest haiku!

  • Chiyo-ni

    Originally posted on Cat Nap Revue: Chiyo-ni (1703-75) A morning glory Clings to the well-bucket: I will ask next-door for water. — Thank you, Ellen Skagerberg!

  • Tanka Sin Fronteras

    Originally posted on Miriam's Well: Poetry, Land Art, and Beyond: looming range, an abandoned water tank— the passerby, crescent moon over the border patrol Miriam Sagan, Santa Fe, New Mexico http://www.atlaspoetica.org/sin-fronteras-%E2%9D%98-borders-without-boundaries/

  • “train station…” a #tanka (8/5/19)

    8/5/19: change at the station train station the long wait on the platform for a transfer seeing an AR-15 with every glance #tanka #micropoetry #poetry

  • Haiku del giorno – Daily haiku

    Originally posted on Vento del giorno: luna di vetro per le colpe che non ho chiedo perdono glass moon for the sins I don’t have I ask forgiveness © A.M. Photo © Beatrice Orsini

  • Steady

    Originally posted on haiku tree: lightning rages a crescent moon steady and still ?

  • Today’s Haiku (August 5, 2019)

    Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 枇杷無言雨無言すべてが見える    田島健一 biwa mugon ame mugon subete ga mieru             loquats in silence             rain in silence             I can see everything                                                 Kenichi Tajima from “Tadanaranu Po” (Unusual ‘Po’), haiku collection of Kenichi Tajima, Furansu-do, Tokyo 2017