Frank J. Tassone

Haijin in Action

  • Nocturnal

    Nocturnal

    #Haiku Happenings #2: Reena Saxena’s latest #tanka!

  • Daily Haiku: Nov. 28, 2017

    Originally posted on Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog: a bit of sea foam in my open hands gratitude by Ce Rosenow  (USA) ?

  • A Poet’s Plans…#haibun #haiku #poetry #dVerse

    Over at dVerse, Toni sings her swan song as a bartender, and she asks us to consider our plans for tonight’s Haibun Monday. While she will remain a patron of dVerse, she departs as a staff member, so she can pursue her writing and education goals. Best of luck to you, Toni! A Poet’s Plans…

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

     By Bishalniraula (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons   ‘Once more the storm is howling, and half hid Under this cradle-hood and coverlid My child sleeps on.’ —W.B. Yeats   fresh snowfall our slow drive home carrying our newborn son warmly wrapped in your blankets how you slept the whole way home…

  • A #HaikaiChallenge9 update #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka

    #Haiku Happenings #9: Behold the current respondents to my latest #haikai challenge: Jilly–Ain’t Gonna Happen–a Haiku Charley–Haiku: Migration Charmed Chaos–#Haiku: Rain revivedwriter–November Rain qbit–Haiku–November Rain Thank you, everyone, and keep ’em coming!

  • IN CORPORE SANO

    Originally posted on the other bunny: They do physical exercises in the park every saturday, and every saturday I smoke a cigarette and watch them from the big window of my living room. falling leaves the different levels of loneliness ? Andrea Cecon

  • Haiku

    Originally posted on Bending moments: moonless… a cat’s snarl startles the night *** still the chill in the blue iris bud the thaw of winter *** (Presence #59 Nov. 2017)

  • Today’s Haiku (November 27, 2017)

    Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 白く又黒きひかりの冬の旅　　高屋窓秋 shiroku mata kuroki hikari no fuyu no tabi a light white and black… a winter journey                                     Soshu Takaya from ‘Haidan,’ (‘Haiku Stage’) a monthly haiku magazine, January 2017 Issue, Honami Shoten, Tokyo Fay’s Note: Soshu Takaya  (1910-1999)

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Frank J. Tassone

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

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