Frank J. Tassone

Haijin in Action

  • Nicholas Klacsanzky’s Ant

    Originally posted on Haiku Commentary: the ant wanders across the floor . . . meditation room Akitsu Quarterly, Summer issue, 2017 © Nicholas Klacsanzky (Ukraine) We have a father-son team this time with Mark Salzer (father) and Jacob Salzer (son): Shenzhen has over 14 million people, and from a high rise building, appear as ants…

  • Haiku del giorno – Daily haiku

    Originally posted on Vento del giorno: Hiroshige Utagawa. black hills – the moon above listening nere colline – e lassù quella luna sola in ascolto © A.M.

  • Passing #midnighthaiku

    Originally posted on Sue Vincent's Daily Echo: Past creates future In the heart of the first rose Petals unfurling For Frank J. Tassone’s Haikai Challenge

  • Sudden Downpour: A #writephoto #quadrille #haibun

      The rain fell unexpectedly. The tumultuous gray had so quickly gathered that we had no time to turn back. A welcoming row of entwining trees offered us a welcome shelter. We rested our bikes and waited.   emerging sun the flanders country ride soon resumes     for dVerse Poets’ Quadrille #57 – Don’t…

  • I, Cuchulainn

    By Stephen Reid (Eleanor Hull, The Boys’ Cuchulain) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons   I, tied to a post, await them, my enemies who’ve killed me at last. I’ll stand my ground against them to the end. Not much longer, now. My blood-stained blade, heavy in my hand one last time. My torn tunic saturated…

  • Beneath the Sky, Reflections (haibun)

    Originally posted on Grahn Song: It’s quiet here. The sky is cloudless. A moth flutters on the most subtle of breezes. There’s barely a ripple on the water. If reflections could speak, they would speak of silence, of harmony and of deep introspection. Locked in the aquatic mirror, a world of wonder stands fully exposed…

  • Haiku: Passing Spring

    Originally posted on Charmed Chaos: farewell cool mornings passing Spring; death comes too soon still, the cactus blooms ©2018 Linda Lee Lyberg Frank J. Tassone Hakai Challenge #34

  • End of Eastertide

    Originally posted on revivedwriter: This week, Frank J. Tassone’s haikai prompt is to write about the passing spring. Today is Pentecost, which, in Christianity, marks the descent of the Holy Spirit and also the end of the Easter season. I love the Easter season, but for once I do not feel grieved by the passage…

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Frank J. Tassone

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

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