Frank J. Tassone

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  • A #Tanka for a Month with Keats: Day Nine #haiku #poetry

    ‘Troy passed away in one high funeral gleam, And Usna’s children died.’ W.B. Yeats Paris’ arrow Achilles’ bloodied tendon preceding his fall Conor’s sword fells Unis’  sons and Diedre’s shattered heart For Jane Dougherty’s A Month with Yeats—Day 9

  • Silent Potential

    Silent Potential

    #Haiku Happenings #8: Reena Saxena’s latest #Haibun

  • Haibun: A Sunrise In November

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

  • Failed haiku, November 2017

    Originally posted on Il fiume scorre ancora: Very pleased to appear with two poems of mine, in the November issue of Failed Haiku edited by Michael Rehling. Thank you so much Mike, for your great work❤️. Here’s my haiga. ( ph. by Eufemia Griffo) http://www.haikuhut.com/FailedHaikuIssue23.pdf

  • Today’s Haiku (November 9, 2017)

    Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 解体の隣家に鬼の子が残る　　　早川恵美子 kaitai no rinka ni oni no ko ga nokoru demolished house next door a demon’s child left behind                                     Emiko Hayakawa from ‘Noise’ No. 2, 2014, edited by Kazuya Sawada and Hisanori Takai, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan Fay’s Note:  ‘oni no ko’ (demon’s child) is…

  • Tiffany Shaw-Diaz’s Hummingbird

    Originally posted on Haiku Commentary: hummingbird… my thoughts come and go (1st place in the 21st Indian Kukai) © Tiffany Shaw-Diaz (USA) The hummingbird symbolizes the enjoyment of life and lightness of being. Thoughts here may indicate changes in mood. The swift movement of this bird can also be related to the thought process. It…

  • wrapping the rice cakes

    wrapping the rice cakes

    Originally posted on 日本文化の愛 Nipponbunka no ai: ? Wrapping the rice cakes, with one hand she fingers back her hair -Matsuo Basho ? Art by Katsukawa Shuntei, “Momotaro Holding a Rice Cake”

  • Daily Haiku: Nov. 9, 2017

    Originally posted on Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog: empty street– she stoops to pocket a half-cigarette by Robyn Hood Black  (USA) Acorn, #39, Fall 2017   ?

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Frank J. Tassone

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

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