Frank J. Tassone

Haijin in Action

  • season’s

    Originally posted on Project words: season’s end dampness sharpens into frost ? ? ? ?

  • Daily Haiku: Thanksgiving, Nov. 23, 2017

    Originally posted on Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog: senryu ? wishbones the ritual with my mother ? by Alan Summers (UK) Presence, #59, November 2017

  • I can’t flee away

    I can’t flee away

    Originally posted on 日本文化の愛 Nipponbunka no ai: 世の中を　憂しとやさしと　おもへども　飛び立ちかねつ　鳥にしあらねば Yononaka wo Ushi to yasashi to Omo(h)e domo Tobitachi kanetsu Tori ni shi arane ba I feel the life is sorrowful and unbearable though I can’t flee away since I am not a bird. -Yamanoue no Okurachōka “A Dialogue of two Poormen (貧窮問答歌, Hinkyū mondōka)” Art by Utagawa…

  • Haibun 55

    Originally posted on Michael Rehling: reality passes us by creation is not up to god. the reality we live in is our own invention. right or wrong. an elaborate fabrication of our very tender minds. our psyches create both good and bad with equal irregularity. blood in our veins. blood on our hands. i have…

  • Haiku – Thanksgiving

    Originally posted on qbit: Pine needles give way Holiday feast of rain, mud – Thankful for new boots ? ? For Frank’s Haikai Challenge

  • Today’s Haiku (November 23, 2017)

    Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 冬薔薇傷を重ねていたるかな　　　曽根　毅（つよし） fuyusôbi kizu o kasaneteitaru kana winter rose… adding more scars                                     Tsuyoshi Sone from ‘Haidan,’ (‘Haiku Stage’) a monthly haiku magazine, May 2017 Issue, Honami Shoten, Tokyo

  • #Publication Alert 11/23/17 #haibun #haiku #poetry

    Happy to appear in Product Poet’s latest paper! https://paper.li/ProductPoet/1361288961#/ Click “#haiku,” then “all haiku.” It’s the post that begins “#Wayback Wednesday 11/22/17…”

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

    ‘I wander by the edge Of this desolate lake Where wind cries in the sedge:’ —W.B. Yeats Peter Smyly [CC BY-SA 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons   windswept lake daylight the only witness to our moans and sighs her passion-spent hand caresses my battle-scarred, tear-stained cheek   for Jane Dougherty’s A Month with Yeats: Day…

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Frank J. Tassone

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

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