Frank J. Tassone

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  • a new year

    a new year

    Originally posted on 日本文化の愛 Nipponbunka no ai: 春立や新年ふるき米五升 haru tatsu ya shinnen furuki kome go shô Here comes spring! A new year, with old Rice-just enough! -Matsuo Basho ? Art by Hiroshige

  • En garde!

    En garde!

    Originally posted on Smell The Coffee: Winter is set to return this weekend when the second ‘Beast from the East’ hits the UK, plunging temperatures to minus figures and even bringing in further snow. Yellow Severe weather warnings are in place across most of the week for a lot of the country as horrifying cold…

  • Sighing for Spring: Haibun

    Originally posted on Yesterday and today: Merril's historical musings: In between nor’easters, we take a spur-of-the-moment day trip. We look at paintings of people now gone and places that no longer exist except in memories. We see landscapes of lush verdant woods that contrast with western desert landscapes featuring windmills, swimming pools, and ranch hands.…

  • Haibun: A Helping Hand

    #Haiku Happenings #2: Xenia Tran’s latest #haibun for my current #haikai challenge!

  • tanka in spring snow

    Originally posted on Ontheland: our garden nestles in a snow-feather duvet life awakening as vernal sun bends closer her vitality quickens ~ ©️2018 Ontheland A tanka for Frank J Tassone’s Haikai Challenge #24: Snow

  • A Mortal Scream Epistle: a #shadormaprose #letterpoem

    Edvard Munch [Public domain or Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons   You would not understand were you still on my side of the veil. I only hope that on your side, you do, and will forgive me for bearing witness. Just as I hope to someday forgive you.   Three AM you dare scream my…

  • #Throwdown Thursday (3/15/18): My latest is up… Summer Virus – #Haibun | .@ImageCurve

    Summer Virus BY FRANK J. TASSONE · 15TH MARCH 2018 Haibun The bloated feeling began when we drove home from the library. The cramping began later, when we came to bed. Rolaids offered no relief. The cramping soon became stabbing pains, waking me up. I had dreamed that Mom suggested I take a stool softener.…

  • Today’s Haiku (March 15, 2018)

    Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): しづかだねだれもゐないね蝌蚪の国　　　永瀬十悟 shizuka dane dare mo inai ne kato no kuni             isn’t it quiet?             no one there, isn’t it?             tadpole country                                                 Jugo Nagase from ‘Haiku,’ a monthly haiku magazine, May 2016 Issue, Kabushiki Kaisha Kadokawa, Tokyo

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Frank J. Tassone

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

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