Frank J. Tassone

Haijin in Action

  • An announcement concerning the #HaikaiChallenge

    I plan to roll out the next #HaikaiChallenge tomorrow. Be ready! Autumn night Paying a busy day’s Exhausting toll

  • A #Tanka for A Month with Yeats: Day 18

      The Origin of Will O’ The Wisp, 1891, Wikimedia Commons ‘The dews drop slowly and dreams gather;’ —W.B. Yeats Evening dew crystalline in winter cold under a pale moon Will she be here at first light, or does the dream die at dawn?     for Jane Dougherty’s A Month with Yeats: Day 18

  • Today’s Haiku (November 18, 2017)

    Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): コンビニに現世のすべて冬の暮　　　高野ムツオ konbini ni gense no subete fuyu no kure everything in this world at a convenience store winter dusk                                                 Mutsuo Takano from ‘Haiku,’ a monthly haiku magazine, April 2017 Issue, Kabushiki Kaisha Kadokawa, Tokyo

  • Passages

    Originally posted on Bill Waters ~~ Haiku: A Rengay by Annette Makino & Bill Waters revolving door that autumn leaf comes round again behind the bookcase a secret passage tousled roses the garden gate rusted open spring break the hallways fill with silence a curving dirt road to an unlocked door tunnel’s end morning light…

  • Haibun 45

    Originally posted on Michael Rehling: a beacon written away the old lighthouse is dark now. a ghost light appears on some holidays. most likely kids shining a flashlight beam at the top of the light for the tourists. the metallic ring of a bell in the harbor and the light disappears. a hundred and seventy…

  • Daily Haiku: Nov. 18, 2017

    Originally posted on Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog: sunshine she lets her hair down for him by Christine L. Villa (USA) 156th Haiga Contest Finalist World Haiku Association

  • no way to meet you

    no way to meet you

    Originally posted on 日本文化の愛 Nipponbunka no ai: つれづれの ながめにまさる 涙河 そでのみぬれて 逢ふよしもなし tsurezure no nagame ni masaru namidagawa  sode nomi nurete au yoshi mo nashi Lost in idle brooding. That swells with the long rains A river of tears That soaks only my sleeves There is no way to meet you. -Ariwara no Narihira ?…

  • My poem ” absinthe glass”, in the second place in Asahi Haikuist Network edited by David McMurray

    Originally posted on Il fiume scorre ancora: Today my poem ” absinthe glass” is in the second place in Asahi Haikuist Network edited by David McMurray. I’m very delighted to appear once again in this amazing column. absinthe glass the souls of poets lost in a green river –Eufemia Griffo (Settimo Milanese, Italy) http://www.asahi.com/sp/ajw/articles/AJ201711170001.html ~~~~~~…

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Frank J. Tassone

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

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