Frank J. Tassone

Haijin in Action

  • glass

    Originally posted on Project words: glass marbles the indifference in your eyes ? ? ? ?

  • quails

    quails

    Originally posted on 日本文化の愛 Nipponbunka no ai: ? Yū sareba Nobe no akikaze Mi ni shimite Uzura naku nari Fukakusa no sato As evening falls, From along the moors the autumn wind Blows chill into the heart; And the quails raise their plaintive cry In the deep grass of Fukakusa village -Fujiwara no Shunzei ?…

  • #Tanka Tuesday #2…the Wild Beauty of Street Art…#haiku #poetry

      beautiful balloons lovers odor all over the comfy front seat What wild flight of fancy do we overlook each day?   for DVerse Poets Pub–Poetics. Hosted tonight by Lillian.   For Colleen’s Weekly Tuesday #Poetry Challenge   For Kiwinana’s Weekly Tanka Prompt Challenge–week 71

  • Haiku: Sweet Memories

    #Haiku Happenings #7: Xenia Tran’s latest haiku!

  • Today’s Haiku (November 14, 2017)

    Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 冬の日をこぼさぬやうに籠を編む　　黛まどか fuyu no hi o kobosanu yô ni kago o amu trying not to spill the winter sunshine I weave a basket                                                 Madoka Mayuzumi from ‘Haidan,’ (‘Haiku Stage’) a monthly haiku magazine, February 2015 Issue, Honami Shoten, Tokyo

  • #Tanka Tuesday #1 (11/14/17)…for A Month with Yeats: Day 14…#haiku #poetry

    Jane’s prompt for a Month with Yeats: Day 14: Today’s quote if from ‘To Ireland in the Coming Times’. I think the following lines have inspired a sonnet. I find this a hard form to write, but this one came without trying. That you, in the dim coming times, May know how my heart went…

  • Toast

    Originally posted on Whimsygizmo's Blog: There’s things I remember and things I forget I miss you, I guess that I should Three thousand five hundred miles away But what would you change if you could? …I need a phone call I need a raincoat – Counting Crows, Raining in Baltimore ? … It should be…

  • Under the Basho 2017 issue

    Originally posted on Il fiume scorre ancora: Delighted to be part (section Modern haiku) along with so many haiku friends. Congrats to everyone. http://underthebasho.com/2017-issue/modern-haiku.html

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Frank J. Tassone

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

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