Frank J. Tassone

Haijin in Action

  • women in the snow

    women in the snow

    Originally posted on 日本文化の愛 Nipponbunka no ai: 鍋さげて淀の小橋を雪の人 nabe sagete yodo no kobashi o yuki no hito Pots in hand Across the little bridge at Yodo Go women in the snow. -Yosa Buson ? Art by Utagawa Kunisada

  • #Throwdown Thursday (12/21/17): my latest #haibun #poetry is up on .@ImageCurve #haiku

    A Cook Against the Storm I turn on the barbeque just as a horizon-filling bank of rainclouds roll in. A sudden wind arrives. The songbirds’ ensemble speeds with urgency. I race this oncoming storm. The stakes? Our sardine dinner. rustling leaves after the rain a shimmering grill   first published in Image Curve, December 21,…

  • Haibun 70

    Originally posted on Michael Rehling: winter solstice dreams where i live in the north woods you never know what winter will bring. every night you go to sleep and with the exception of the sounds of the wind you have no idea what you may see when you wake. but it is an exciting time.…

  • matricharcy

    #Haiku Happenings #13: Tia’s latest haiku sequence appears in Scryptic Magazine 1.3 December 2017!

  • Haiku by Jim Kacian

    Originally posted on Haiku Art Site: where the river widens just that much more light the lineament of lightning once it’s gone stars more questions than answers out beyond the lit night sky meteor belief * The haiku are from after/image, haiku of Jim Kacian (2017, Red Moon Press). Reprinted with permission.  All rights reserved. Jim…

  • #Tanka: Solstice | Charmed Chaos

    #Haiku Happenings #11: Linda Lee Lyberg‘ latest #tanka for my current #haiku challenge! https://charmedchaos.com/2017/12/21/tanka-solstice/

  • “nautilus” Haiga Earns Honors from NHK World TV Haiku Masters Series

    “finding the way back” © 2017 Jennifer Hambrick. All rights reserved. First published on NHK World TV’s Haiku Masters at  https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/tv/haiku_masters/gallery201712.html?week=2 I am honored to have been named runner-up for Haiku Master of the Week recently on NHK World TV’s Haiku Masters series for my haiga “finding the way back.” I took the photo for this haiga…

  • Blue Trumpet ~ Ekphrasis (The British Haiku Society Members’ Anthology, 2017)

    Originally posted on Komorebi: blue trumpet – if only we could be strangers again (after the song Almost Blue, written by Elvis Costello, covered by Chet Baker) tromba infelice – potessimo tornare di nuovo estranei Maria Laura Valente Ekphrasis ~ The British Haiku Society Members’ Anthology, 2017, edited by Iliyana Stoyanova.

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Frank J. Tassone

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

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