Frank J. Tassone

Haijin in Action

  • Unauthorized Break

    #Haiku Happenings #9: Sophia Dinola’s first #haibun!

  • The Tough Terrain

    Originally posted on Hephaestus’ Waste & Cosmic Rubble: Image source: urban.org The Tough Terrain The path beyond my garden was once concrete, cinderblock, brick, asphalt, and dirt fields that were once meant to be green. On those dirt fields, we played a game called “Kill the Man”, where one kid would try to run with the…

  • s p l i n t e r

    s p l i n t e r

    Originally posted on l’amour libère: She fell into the spine, between the pages 80 and 81. Never before, she thought, had words reached into her, beneath tissue and through sinew, to touch her bones. She grasped at the strings, over and over, sliding across sentences, from the bottom of one page to the corner of…

  • #Haikai Challenge #30 (4/21/18): Earth… #Haiku #Senryu #Haibun #Tanka #Haiga #Renga

    No sooner did we celebrate warmth than another cold spell enveloped the Northeast! Nevertheless, Haijin, you bore witness to the inevitable turn toward spring (at least in the northern hemisphere). Congratulations to last week’s contributors:   Haikai Challenge Participants  1. Ken Gierke / rivrvlogr 2. lynn__ 3. Dwight L. Roth 4. Jules 5. Jane Dougherty…

  • Pond at dusk

    Originally posted on Bill Waters ~~ Haiku: pond at dusk — frogs and blackbirds in conversation Published in the Asahi Shimbun‘s Asahi Haikuist Network section (http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201804200004.html), 4/20/18, and featured at My Haiku Pond (https://twitter.com/MyHaikuPond/status/987335572409765888) for 4/20/18. *    *    *    * ?

  • Haibun – Tarheel

    Originally posted on kanzen sakura: Day 20 of Nano. Sherry is giving the prompt for today at Real Toads. My favorite prompt yet. It is based on the free verse poetry of Al Purdy, poet laureate of Canada. She has gifted us his wonderful poem, Say the Names. It is a true gift. The saying…

  • Haiga, Haiku & #20: Energy Stories & April NaHaiWriMo 2018

    Originally posted on A 19 Planets Art Blog 2010/2024: * energy bars how frequently i drop a sales pitch * for Prompt #20 NaHaiWriMo 4-20-2018 * Lynne Jambor April 20 ENERGY *

  • My Daily #Haiku (4/21/18)

    4/21/18: print daybreak — seeing my haibun in print #haiku #micropoetry #poetry #GloPoWriMo2018 #NaPoWriMo201821/30

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Frank J. Tassone

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

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