Frank J. Tassone

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  • #Napowrimo2018 cometh…a #Senryu Saturday (3/24/18) #haibun announcement

      April is National Poetry Month. National Poetry Writing Month, or NaPoWriMo, has become a way poets and poet bloggers celebrate it. I wrote my first 30 in 30 last year, and I will do so again this year. As if the madness of #nahaiwrimo2018 wasn’t enough, right? Stay tuned…the fun begins Easter Sunday. Which…

  • Stardust Haiku

    Originally posted on Martha Magenta: ? spring sunrise the scent of primrose in shady woods ? © Martha Magenta ? Stardust Haiku March 23, 2018 Poetry With A Little Sparkle – An Online Journal Presented by Valentina Ranaldi-Adams https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kS8i2PPv8tSmDneU0mMA1KuOobz056-w/view

  • fifty years later…

    fifty years later…

    Originally posted on Folded Word: fifty years later typewriter still jams there ?2018 john martone john martone is an Independent Publisher of journals/small presses tel-let (1980’s-early 2000’s) and otata (2015-current) as well as the personal imprints dogwood & honeysuckle (through early 2000’s) and samuddo/ocean (current). Books include Ocean Vows, (copper beech press, 1983), dogwood and…

  • Post-rissa – After-brawl

    Post-rissa – After-brawl

    Originally posted on HaikuSpot: Non sempre vale la pena di scatenare un putiferio… Vuoto boccale, io ci guardo attraverso dopo la rissa. Dedicata al mio primo libro. – Doing a mess isn’t always a worthy idea… An empty beer pint, i look through it’s dry bottom after the fierce brawl. This is dedicated to my first book.

  • Tanka # 129

    Originally posted on Rooted in Love: On the windowsill wilting slowly as it gazes out towards the field… flower in the vase

  • Today’s Haiku (March 24, 2018)

    Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 陽炎をぬけジェット機の脚たたむ　　土生重次 kagerô o nuke jettoki no ashi tatamu             out of the heat shimmer             a jet plane closes             its legs                                                 Juji Habu from ‘Haidan,’ (‘Haiku Stage’) a monthly haiku magazine, July 2016 Issue, Honami Shoten, Tokyo Fay’s Note:  Juji Habu (1935-2001)

  • #Haikai Challenge #26 (3/24/18): Triduum #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka #haiga #renga

    Master of the Housebook [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons   It’s Spring at last, haijin! At least for now. The last nor’easter of the season came and went. The last snow slowly melts away. And we write on.   Congratulations to last week’s contributors:   Haikai Challenge Participants 1. Jane Dougherty 2. Ken Gierke /…

  • Originally posted on This Lust My Ceaseless Koan: by the highway plastic bags float between breeze and brush why do I glorify this world?

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Frank J. Tassone

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

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