Frank J. Tassone

Haijin in Action

  • Today’s Haiku (July 31, 2018)

    Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 草いきれ鉄材錆びて積まれけり　　杉田久女 kusaikire tetsuzai sabite tsumare keri             a smell of summer grass             iron materials rotten             and stuck up                                                             Hisajo Sugita from “Haiku Dai-Saijiki” (“Comprehensive Haiku Saijiki”), Kadokawa Shoten, Tokyo, 2006 Fay’s Note:  Hisajo Sugita (1890-1946)

  • first bloom…

    #Haiku Happenings #4: Tia Haynes latest haiku appear in Presence!

  • My Daily #Haiku (7/31/18)

    7/31/18: surfacing gathering clouds surfacing again that old problem #haiku #senryu #micropoetry #poetry

  • August, 2018

    Originally posted on Otata: Click on the link below to read otata 32 (August, 2018) Ξ Otata will come again one day late fall in the mountains — Santoka as translated by Burton Watson Otata mo aru hi wa kite kureru yama no aki fukaku As Watson notes, “Otata was a woman who went around…

  • summer bites

    #Haiku Happenings #2: Janice’s latest #haiku!

  • 7.31 (s) creekside, bay or ocean… /twiglet/ haikai/

    Haiku Happenings #1: Jules’ latest #tanka for my current #haikai challenge!   creekside, bay or ocean… a twig for a mast a leaf for a sail in a cicada’s eve song summer fades, vacations end becoming treasured memory ©JP/dh   via 7.31 (s) creekside, bay or ocean… /twiglet/ haikai/

  • “A Nice Game of Chess”: A #dversepoets #quadrille #haibun

      White moves King’s pawn to E4. Black answers with Queen’s knight to F6. I process combinations.  My opponent runs sub-routines.   A flurry of moves. Pawns fall, Bishops pin, Queens clash.   Until the puzzle is complete.   pale sun afternoon — victory   for dVerse Poets Quadrille #61 (pubtended by Mish)      …

  • Haibun: Ghost Cat

    Originally posted on kanzen sakura: The cat in the picture is my boy Sam Cat the Ripper.  I had to have him euthanized last October due to a huge tumor growing on his heart.  He lived a happy life.  This was his favorite place to lie in the yard.  A quadrille is a form unique…

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Frank J. Tassone

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

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