Frank J. Tassone

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  • #nahaiwrimo #1 (2/27/18) #haiku

    2/27/18: rainbow jello sunlit jello — still running after the ice cream truck #nahaiwrimo #haiku #micropoetry #poetry

  • smaller snowballs

    smaller snowballs

    Originally posted on 日本文化の愛 Nipponbunka no ai: 梅咲て小さくなりぬ雪丸げ ume sakite chiisaku narinu yuki maroge Now the plum’s in bloom How much smaller are The snowballs. -Yosa Buson ? Art by Toyohara Chikanobu

  • #writephoto #haibun from .@ImageCurve – Frank J. Tassone

    Originally posted on Sue Vincent's Daily Echo: Nothing left to offer but the rain sunset on the Ramapo Mountains not a drop falls via #Free-style Friday (2/23/18): A #writephoto #haibun from .@ImageCurve – Frank J. Tassone

  • Spring Skin (Tanka)

    Spring Skin (Tanka)

    #Haiku Happenings #1 (2/27/18): M.G. Iannucci‘s latest #tanka!

  • The Burning Bush: a #quadrille #haibun

    Image: KEVIN CARDEN / LIGHTSTOCK.COM   A fire engulfs it, but the bush does not burn. How? Curiosity, from this pharoa’s son-turned-murder, shepherding fugative. I draw closer.   A presence from the fire, none I’ve known, yet all I’ve ever known, calls my name.   Holy ground sandals and sheep set aside     for…

  • #nahaiwrimo #3 (2/26/18) #haiku

    crow caw along the twisted path of a holy fool #haikuchallenge (fool) #nahaiwrimo #haiku #micropoetry #poetry

  • Home | Africa Haiku Network

    #Haiku Happenings #9: check out the Africa Haiku Network! H/T: Petru. Africa Haiku Network is Africa’s most prestigious haiku community. A network that stretches from West Africa to Southern Africa and North Africa. A blossoming community of African haiku poets. — Read on africahaikunetwork.wordpress.com/about/

  • Today’s Haiku (February 26, 2018)

    Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 父逝くやとぶらふ山の狼も　　　米田清文 chichi yuku ya toburau yama no ôkami mo             Father passed away—             a wolf in the mountain             mourns, too                                                 Kiyofumi Yoneta from ‘Kakyô” (‘Home Country’), a haiku collection of Kiyofumi Yoneta, Furansu-do, Tokyo, 2017

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Frank J. Tassone

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

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