Frank J. Tassone

Haijin in Action

  • 3rd Annual Haiku for Change Event 2018

    Originally posted on Stella Pierides: This September I took part in the Haiku for Change Event organised by Michael Smeer of the Facebook community My Haiku Pond, in conjunction with 100 Thousand Poets for Change (Global) 2018. Poets were asked to write one haiku (or senryu, haiga, or photo-haiku) on change: climate, environment, earth. https://frankjtassone.files.wordpress.com/2018/10/12509270_967333143353208_1492404303499927216_n.png…

  • A comforting scent: A #TankaTuesday #TankaProse #2 (10/2/18)

      The aroma of a campfire. The smell of burning oak or pine. There’s so much comfort in that scent.   Every story I’ve told or listen to rises like smoke from the embers of neglected memory when I smell a campfire. Stories like the one at a boy scout campout, in which our senior…

  • Namaste

    #Haiku Happenings #9: Amaya’s latest #haibun for #dversepoets!

  • October haibun

    Originally posted on yaskhan: I embrace October’s breathless thrill. Symphonies merge birds’ tuneful breaths, vermilion heartbeats kindle melodies of effervescent blossoms lilting glimmering reveries. cosmic collision; dulcet energies destiny’s refrain Canticles tumble from hearts pulsing, wrapping yearnings unbroken by life’s strategy. Crystal stars rhythm interludes daydreaming into night skies spangled with poetry. pale of moonlight…

  • Soft Soil

    Originally posted on revivedwriter: For the latest haikai challenge, since it is the first anniversary of the challenge, we can either allude to that or reuse one of the previous words. I decided to return to the earth. Roots are growing deep, Underneath soft soil reaching Immovable rock. ?

  • Hawk Dual: a Gunslinger’s Initiation (a #TankaTuesday #TankaProse 10/2/18)

    What was it like for young Roland Deschain to face his mentor Cort armed only with David? What was it like to battle for mastery, risking exile, using one of “God’s own gunslinger?” A screech. A flash of sunlight off talons that claw flesh off bone. The answering smack of wood against feathers and bones.…

  • Today’s Haiku (October 2, 2018)

    Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 雨音を吸ひ込んでゆく鶏頭花　　　齋藤朝比古 amaoto o suikondeyuku keitôka             inhaling             a sound of rain             cockscomb                                                             Asahiko Saito from ‘Ruijitsu’‘ (Day After Day’) haiku collection by Asahiko Saito, Kadokawa Shoten, Tokyo 2013

  • Make that a Double

    #Haiku Happenings #5: Richard Grahn’s Haibun appears in Contemporary Haibun!

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Frank J. Tassone

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

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