Frank J. Tassone

Haijin in Action

  • 2018 in Review

    Another wonderful year! Here are the highlights: 48,846 views 14,943 visitors 19,938 likes 5,102 comments an all-time high of 553 views for my #Haikai Challenge #16 (1/13/18) Freedom–posted on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday And if that isn’t enough: 3 haibun published, in Haibun Today, Cattails, and Failed Haiku, respectively 7 haiku published by…

  • New Year Nostalgia (12/31/18)

    Blink. Another year passes. We’ll soon meet family. Eat dinner. Celebrate the ball dropping with champagne and New Year’s greetings. Just like last year. How quickly each new one arrives. The last hours of 2018 race by. My son turned fifteen in February of this year. I finished my last Master’s +30 courses. We traveled…

  • Haibun Triptych in Blue Fifth Review: The Blue Collection 9

    Originally posted on Stella Pierides: Grateful thanks to Michelle Elvy and Sam Rasnake for publishing my Haibun Triptych in the special issue “The blue collection 9: Home” of the phenomenal Blue Fifth Review! Photo magic “Boat” by Maria Pierides accompanies the triptych. Check it out:Blue Fifth Review … the blue collection: 9: home (Winter 2018…

  • New Year

    Originally posted on Charmed Chaos: https://frankjtassone.files.wordpress.com/2018/12/IMG_3777.jpg Hope in the twilightgilded horizon promisenew year wish for peace Photo Courtesy of : Alain de Coninck #Hakai Challenge: https://frankjtassone.com/2018/12/29/haikai-challenge-67-new-year-shinnen-haiku-senryu-haibun-tanka-haiga-renga/

  • Impressions

    Originally posted on Yesterday and today: Merril's historical musings: Monday Morning Musings: “For last year’s words belong to last year’s language And next year’s words await another voice.” –T.S. Eliot, “Little Gidding” In the last week of the year, in the dark of December, we gather with family. We eat and eat some more. We…

  • “New Year…” a #Tanka (12/31/18)

    12/31/18: a new perspective New Yearour neighbor’s golden lablies on the lawnthe idea of letting goseen from a new perspective #haiku #micropoetry #poetry

  • Tanka for the New Year

    Originally posted on Jane Dougherty Writes: A tanka for Frank Tassone’s haikai challenge. ? the world’s cold breath mists billows among black tree shapes drifting pale and grey at this year’s end I search clouds for signs of a beginning

  • Fresh Start

    #Haiku Happenings #5: Helene’s latest #tanka for my current #haikai challenge!

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Frank J. Tassone

Husband, Father, Writer, Teacher. American Haijin. Because Haikai matters!

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