Frank J. Tassone

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  • A #Tanka for A Month with Yeats: Day 12…#poetry #haiku

    Jane Dougherty’s A Month with Yeats: Day 12– Today’s quote from the poetry of W.B. Yeats is taken from ‘The Rose of the World’.   ‘He made the world to be a grassy road Before her wandering feet.’  meadow path a panicked flight of birds from the chainsaws’ roar for all green spaces must…

  • #Haikai Challenge #7 (11/11/17): Veterans…#haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka

    Thank you to last week’s participants: Jilly–Trinity Charley–Haiku–Souls in Flight qbit–haiku–River Nihil revivedwriter–remember, remember   On to today’s. It’s Veteran’s day in the United States. It’s also my birthday. Late this morning, my son and I brave the below-30-degrees-Farenheight cold to attend our neighboring village’s Veterans commemoration. Now, I’m typing this challenge–a privilege I could…

  • Today’s Haiku (November 11, 2017)

    Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): わが前を馬過ぐ秋の逝くごとく　　奥坂まや waga mae o uma sugu aki no yuku gotoku a horse passes in front of me like autumn departing                                          Maya Okusaka from “Haiku Dai-Saijiki” (“Comprehensive Haiku Saijiki”), Kadokawa Shoten, Tokyo, 2006

  • A #Tanka for A Month with Yeats: Day 11…#poetry #haiku

    Jane Dougherty’s A Month with Yeats: Day 11 offers the following: Today’s quote is from ‘The Harp of Aengus’ by W.B. Yeats. ‘Where time is drowned in odour-laden winds And Druid moons, and murmuring of boughs,’   She holds tight the thread of dreams And so I respond: burning leaves firelight in the eyes of…

  • #Troiku: Death of a Flower

    Originally posted on Charmed Chaos: falling to the ground a flower closer to the root bidding farewell © Basho ? Falling to the ground faded blossom releasing letting go of self ? a flower closer to the root now in the creator’s arms nourishes mother ? bidding farewell to a fleeting florid life back to…

  • thistles

    Originally posted on Ontheland: thistles underfoot spiked leaves stir thoughts of sharp minds wise people buried here herb foragers, healers thorn plant whisperers ©2017 Ontheland ~ This tanka is from musings that sometimes come up as I see thorn leaf rosettes and full grown thistles in the field around my house. It hints at and…

  • Haibun 39

    Originally posted on Michael Rehling: soul stew i am often caught thinking. silently if that is possible. about all the things that have influenced me. but nothing ever comes from it. russo wrote three pieces for blues band and orchestra while thinking. silently. seiji ozawa recorded it with the san francisco orchestra and the siegel…

  • #Senryu Saturday 11/11/17…a #haibun on a birthday going wrong…#haiku #poetry

    Uninvited Celebrants We had plans for my birthday worked out when the French door opens. Five minutes later Mom and Dad sit at our kitchen table. As often happens living in a mother-daughter home. “We didn’t know what you guys were doing,” Dad says, “We bought a cheesecake.” “We celebrated last night,” I reply. “That…

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Frank J. Tassone

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

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