Frank J. Tassone

Haijin in Action

  • a time of change

    a time of change

    Originally posted on 日本文化の愛 Nipponbunka no ai: しぐれゆく四方の梢の色よりも秋は夕のかはるなりけり sigure yuku yomo no kozuwe no iro yori mo aki fa yufube no kafaru narikeri Touched by drizzling rain, All around, the treetops With their colours say Autumn in evening is A time of change, indeed. -Fujiwara no Sada’ie Art by Hasui Kawase

  • Issue 24 is UP right on time and HUGE!

    Originally posted on Project words: via Issue 24 is UP right on time and HUGE! Very pleased to appear in the December issue of Failed Haiku ? gone midnight the darkness of my dreams ? the length of this icicle my thermal tights ? never quite straight forward fractured moon ? sudden wind the scarecrow…

  • Issue 24 is UP right on time and HUGE!

    Originally posted on failed haiku – a journal of English Senryu: Well, folks, issue 24 is here for your reading pleasure. Some wonderful work, but feast your eyes on the haiga in this one for sure. I want to thank you all for being a part of this thing that started as an ‘experiment’ two years…

  • A #Tanka-Prose #haibun for A Month with Yeats: Day 30

    Thank you, Jane, for your guidance on this wonderful, November journey. And now, for the thirtieth…   via Pinterest.com   “And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow,” —W.B. Yeats     Bloodsword Sunset   The first chill is in the air. The last withered leaves scatter in a passing Autumn…

  • #ThrowdownThursday 11/30/17…my latest on .@ImageCurve: Scattered So Early #Haibun #haiku #poetry

    Scattered So Early BY FRANK J. TASSONE · 30TH NOVEMBER 2017 A body in full rebellion Stomach cramps nausea vertigo A mind in disarray Swirling thoughts Songs Mania rising, falling Winds in full swirl Chime singing, Newly budding maples swaying   A clock that ticks mercilessly on   morning sky indifference to suffering or relief…

  • Haiku in The Workplace

    Originally posted on Project words: ? Delighted to appear once again today in Jim Kacian’s Haiku in The Workplace – ? office rivalry my co worker’s Christmas tree bigger than mine ? Rachel Sutcliffe Haiku Foundation Haiku in the Workplace 29/11/17 https://www.thehaikufoundation.org/2017/11/29/haiku-in-the-workplace-office-rivalry/

  • A child’s grave … (Tanka Art)

    Originally posted on A Poet in Time: ? Also appearing in Skylark, a Tanka Journal, Volume 5, Issue 2, Winter 2017 is this piece of Tanka Art. The photograph was taken by me in the cemetery of Holy Trinity Church (where William Shakespeare is buried) in Stratford-Upon-Avon, UK in 2015. ?

  • Fluttering

    Originally posted on Bill Waters ~~ Haiku: all around the sleeping cat shadows of birds fluttering *   *   *   *

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Frank J. Tassone

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

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