Frank J. Tassone

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  • a lonely stag

    a lonely stag

    Originally posted on 日本文化の愛 Nipponbunka no ai: 奥山に 紅葉踏みわけ 鳴く鹿の 声きく時ぞ 秋はかなしき Oku-yama ni momiji fumi-wake naku shika no koe kiku toki zo aki wa kanashiki Autumn at its saddest— Rustling through the leaves and moving on alone deep into the mountains, I hear a lonely stag belling for his doe. –Sarumaru no Dayū 猿丸大夫…

  • Today’s Haiku (November 20, 2017)

    Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 石としてきらめく墓や冬椿　　岸本尚毅 ishi to shite kirameku haka ya fuyu tsubaki a tombstone sparkles as a stone— winter camellias                                     Naoki Kishimoto from ‘Haiku,’ a monthly haiku magazine, March 2017 Issue, Kabushiki Kaisha Kadokawa, Tokyo

  • Monoku Monday 11/20/17…#haiku #poetry

    Autumn chill too much fatigue for this haiku

  • Our Standing Ground… a #haibun #quadrille for .@dVersePoets

    Where is our root?   On shifting fashions, like that house built on sand, awaiting the tumolt and inevitable ruin?   Or on authentic sense, that citadel founded on rock, indifferent to buffeting winds and punishing waters?     autumn rain a swollen brook eroding a well-worn rock   Mish hosts dVerse Poets Pub’s Quadrille…

  • Two Poems by Carol Purington

    Originally posted on Haiku Art Site: Clouds and full moon – light to dark to light my path by Carol Purington Family Farm: Haiku for a Place of Moons Winfred Press 1999 Second Printing 2015 * First card silver-white birches and a splash of cardinal – into a season of darkness the promise of Light…

  • A #tanka for A Year with Yeats: Day Twenty #haiku #poetry

    A faerie Queen, Wikimedia Commons out of the dark air over her head there came A murmur of soft words and meeting lips.’—W.B. Yeats falling rain soft whispers and kisses in the dark signs of a peace I haven’t earned For Jane Dougherty’s A Month with Yeats: Day Twenty

  • disturbance in the force

    Originally posted on the other bunny: a fall … fool a fall … aloof a fool … fall a fool … a fruit aloof … fruit fall a fool … fruit fall a fool aloof… loofah … loofah a fool aloof fruit fall sound on sound original source of self Hansha Teki ?

  • Tanka: Floating Cloud

    #Haiku Happenings #9: Xenia Tran’s latest #tanka!

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Frank J. Tassone

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

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