Frank J. Tassone

Haijin in Action

  • Today’s Haiku (December 13, 2017)

    Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 走りつくして未だ枯野のすゑでなし　　岡田一美 hashiritsukushite mada kareno no sue de nashi I ran all the way… the withered field not yet at the end                                     Kazumi Okada  ‘Haidan,’ (‘Haiku Stage’) a monthly haiku magazine, February 2016  Issue, Honami Shoten, Tokyo

  • Haibun 69

    Originally posted on Michael Rehling: hell is other people jean paul sartre had it wrong. hell is not other people. hell is our own convoluted view of ourselves. what takes us off center is our failure to find out who we really are. once we discover ourselves we can be set for life. oh but…

  • Daily Haiku: Dec. 13, 2017

    Originally posted on Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog: senryu ? New Year tradition– my no resolutions resolution by Valentina Ranaldi-Adams (USA) Failed Haiku, Vol. 2, Issue 14, February 2017

  • icy

    Originally posted on Project words: icy blast blowing cobwebs off my boots ? ?

  • scarlet leaves

    scarlet leaves

    Originally posted on 日本文化の愛 Nipponbunka no ai: たふとがる涙やそめて散紅葉 ? tōtogaru namida ya somete chiru momiji So honoured am I that My tears stain The falling leaves with scarlet. -Matsuo Basho Art by Hishida Shunsō

  • #Tanka Tuesday 12/12/17…This Christmas Spirit…#haiku #poetry

      “Silver Bells” unraveled music lesson from so long ago so many winters later a light shining in the dark     for Colleen’s Weekly #Tanka Tuesday Poetry Challenge #62: Bells & Past   and   Kiwinana’s Weekly Tanka Prompt Challenge – Week 75 – Shining & Winter    

  • Mowing and Remembrance…a #haibun for #dversepoets

    The old Yard Machine awaits. Dried out grass fills every groove in its tires. The hood, which snapped off its hinges snagging a low-hanging branch, loosely rests over the motor. One of its blades must surely have bent by now. As I muster the will to use it, I imagine Dad riding it once more.…

  • Haiku in The Workplace

    Originally posted on Project words: ? Delighted to appear once again today in Jim Kacian’s Haiku in The Workplace – ? biting my tongue I shred some more of my anger ? Rachel Sutcliffe Haiku Foundation Haiku in the Workplace 12/12/17 https://www.thehaikufoundation.org/2017/12/12/haiku-in-the-workplace-anger-management/

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Frank J. Tassone

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

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