Frank J. Tassone

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  • Current #midnighthaiku

    Originally posted on Sue Vincent's Daily Echo: #Haiku Happenings #4: Sue Vincent’s latest #haiga! Sue Vincent's Daily Echo View original post

  • Daily Haiku: Nov. 17, 2017

    Originally posted on Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog: reading the Gospels a few verses at a time raindrops on branches by Ellen Grace Olinger (USA) https://ellenolinger.wordpress.com/2011/04/20/reading-the-gospels Read about Ellen’s new book: https://quietchristmaspoetry.wordpress.com/ ?

  • above

    Originally posted on Project words: above the web of tangled branches late autumn sun ? ? ? ? ?

  • in autumn sunlight

    in autumn sunlight

    Originally posted on 日本文化の愛 Nipponbunka no ai: ちはやぶる 神代も聞かず 竜田川 からくれなゐに 水くくるとは Chihayaburu kami-yo mo kikazu tatsuta-gawa kara-kurenai ni mizu kuguru to wa Even the almighty gods of old never knew such beauty on the river Tatsuta in autumn sunlight a brocade— reds flowing above blue water below. -Ariwara no Narihira Art by Kanō Tan’yū, Sanjūrokkasen-gaku…

  • A #Tanka for A Month with Yeats: Day 16 #haiku #poetry

    From ‘He Mourns for the Change That Has Come Upon Him and Longs for the End of the World’ ‘Do you not hear me calling, white deer with no horns?’—W.B. Yeats   white-tail doe her bent neck over crabgrass at sunset Where have all your fawns gone? Why do you graze alone?   for Jane…

  • #ThrowdownThursday 11/16/17…my latest is up: Morning Prayer – #Haibun | .@ImageCurve #poetry #haiku

    Morning Prayer BY FRANK J. TASSONE · 16TH NOVEMBER 2017 Haibun Robins, sparrows, and cardinal songs through an open window. Bacon sizzling from the kitchen. The flickering tongue of an indifferent Senhora da Fatima Candle in a drape-rustling breeze. Seated on the zafu, legs folded on the zabuton. A tenuous hold of intention through a…

  • Today’s Haiku (November 16, 2017)

    Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 山眠るあたたかさうな雲のせて　　黛　執 yama nemuru atatakasôna kumo nosete a mountain sleeps with a warm-looking cloud on its back                                     Shu Mayuzumi from ‘Haidan,’ (‘Haiku Stage’) a monthly haiku magazine, February 2015 Issue, Honami Shoten, Tokyo Fay’s Note:  ‘yama nemuru’ (a mountain sleeps) is a winter kigo.

  • Haiku: Cosmic Flow

    #Haiku Happenings #4: Xenia Tran’s latest haiku!

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Frank J. Tassone

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

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