Frank J. Tassone

Haijin in Action

  • Everturning: A #haibun #Quadrille

      The water cycle. The life cycle.   The cycles of my mistakes.   The wheel turns and turns, a child’s merry-go-round spinning too fast.   The rock cycle. The universal cycle.   What goes around, comes around.   Solstice another turn of the seasons why can’t time stand still?     For dVerse Poets’ Quadrille…

  • Tanka # 149

    Originally posted on Rooted in Love: From my pierced chest the days are leaking… as I walk a thin stream of clouds behind me trails ~ Light foot I travel to you wafting on the sounds of my beating heart

  • haiku: old rooftiles…

    Originally posted on Haiku For Living: . old rooftiles laid in sagging rows hearth and home ? ? ? ? .

  • Originally posted on Puget Lines and Edges: #Haiku Happenings #10: Dave Kuhlmann’s latest #haiga! Puget Lines and Edges View original post

  • “Essential” Featured in Poets United: Poems of the Week!

    Thrilled to have my haibun Essential featured in Poems of the Week from Poets United! Thank you, Sherry, for the invitation and conversation!  A special shout-out to Robin Kimber and Julian Clarke, whose poems are also featured!     ESSENTIAL “In the beginning was the word…” Logos. The essence of consciousness, the embodied will of…

  • Today’s Haiku (June 18, 2018)

    Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): あぢさゐのかくも疲れし前頭葉　　波戸岡　旭 ajisai no kakumo tsukareshi zentoyô             hydrangea…             its frontal lobe             so tired                                                 Akira Hatooka from “Haiku-kai” (“Haiku World,” a monthly haiku magazine ,  December 2016 Issue,  Bungaku No Mori, Tokyo Fay’s Note:   This one is tough to translate.   Japanese word after…

  • Daily Haiku: June 18, 2018

    Originally posted on Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog: autumn leaves in the garden a bird with no song     by Barbara Tate  (USA) Modern Haiku, 47.3, 2016 ?

  • “Basho on Poetry: Learn from the Pine”.

    Originally posted on Lady Nyo's Weblog: Basho On Poetry: Learn from the Pine – These are excerpts from a rather long document by Basho, considered to be the top haiku poet of the 17th century. I am presenting these thoughts of his because they ‘make clear and plain’ what Basho believes is the correct approach…

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Frank J. Tassone

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

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