Frank J. Tassone

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  • A #Tanka for A Month with Yeats: Day Twenty-nine

      ingawh [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons   ‘Why, what could she have done, being what she is? Was there another Troy for her to burn?’—W.B. Yeats   Blood sunset our mad general pursues her across this land so we bleed so far from home for these empty vanities   for Jane Dougherty’s A…

  • A #TankaTuesday (on a Wednesday) 11/29/17 special…On Winter Mornings and Abundant Wanderings…#haiku #poetry

    By ILMRT (Own work) [GFDL or CC-BY-SA-3.0], via Wikimedia Commons   Winter mornings abundance of hot coffee before wandering congested highways of these inevitable commutes   For Kiwinana’s Weekly Tanka Prompt Challenge–week 73–Winter and Mornings and Colleen’s Weekly #Poetry Challenge and Poets United Midweek Motif–bittersweet and Real Toads Tuesday Platform

  • From Chen-ou Liu

    From Chen-ou Liu

    #Haiku Happenings #8: Sarah Russell features Chen-ou Liu!

  • Haibun 59

    Originally posted on Michael Rehling: within the yellow lines i dont drink that much. a few liters of wine a year when dining out with my wife and friends. i also buy one bottle of lagavulin 16 years aged scotch a year. i reserve this peaty beauty for moments when i am sad. the death…

  • Eufemia Griffo – Otata, Settembre 2017

    Originally posted on Memorie di una Geisha, multiblog internazionale di Haiku: Etruscan tombs the shadows of Olives trees protect eternal sleep (tombe etrusche/ le ombre degli Uivi proteggono/ il sonno eterno) * Eufemia Griffo

  • The Haiku Foundation Haiku Registry

    Originally posted on Haiku Art Site: THF Celebration Fortnight 2017 – Day 7 post, by Jim Kacian, highlights the Haiku Registry, as “THF Fact of the Day.”  Billie Wilson is the manager for THF Haiku Registry. * This lesson plan from The Haiku Foundation Education Resources features a haiku by Peggy Willis Lyles, from her…

  • Fibonacci Spiral

    Fibonacci Spiral

    #Haiku Happenings #3: Reena Saxena’s latest #haibun!

  • fallen leaves

    fallen leaves

    Originally posted on 日本文化の愛 Nipponbunka no ai: 人心緒絶えの橋に立かへり木の葉降りしく秋の通ひ路 hito kokoro odae no hashi ni tachikaeri ko no ha furishiku aki no kayoiji Our hearts On the broken bridge at Odae Do stand; Fallen leaves swept along The autumn paths back and forth… -Fujiwara No Teika Art by Suzuki Harunobu ?

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Frank J. Tassone

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

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