Frank J. Tassone

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  • late

    Originally posted on Project words: late autumn pouring clouds of leaves ? ? ? ?

  • A #tanka for A Month With Yeats…of bloodied tides and lost innocence…#poetry

    ‘The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned;’ first blood she whispers in the dark “Are you inside?” shards of a shattered culture Strewn in the wake of my “yes” For Jane Dougherty’s A Month with Yeats–Day 8

  • #Wayback Wednesday 11/8/17…the dark side of silence…a #haibun #haiku #poetry for .@PoetsUnited

    Silent Night, Silent Day   Something in the way she drives. Her left hand, turned up, turned down, on and off the steering wheel. Her steely eyes, centered on the road. The 40 MPH sprints on the side streets. The utter silence. I shrink in my seat. Pity my brother, who bears this cold onslaught…

  • Haiku in The Workplace

    Originally posted on Project words: Delighted to appear once again today in Jim Kacian’s Haiku in The Workplace – graveyard shift working with the office ghost ? ? Rachel Sutcliffe Haiku Foundation Haiku in the Workplace 08/11/17 https://www.thehaikufoundation.org/2017/11/08/haiku-in-the-workplace-the-office-ghoul/

  • Today’s Haiku (November 8, 2017)

    Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 何事も胸にをさめて秋の暮　　久保田万太郎 nanigoto mo  mune ni osamete aki no kure             everything I keep             in the chest             autumn dusk                                                 Mantaro Kubota from ‘Haidan,’ (‘Haiku Stage’) a monthly haiku magazine, October 2017 Issue, Honami Shoten, Tokyo Fay’s Note:  Mantaro Kubota (1889-1963)

  • Landscape of Mystery

    Landscape of Mystery

    #Haiku Happenings #3: Reena Saxena’s latest #tanka for Kiwinana’s Weekly Tanka Challenge!

  • Daily Haiku: Nov. 8, 2017

    Originally posted on Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog: zen garden– an imaginary river runs through me by Susan Burch  (USA) Runner-Up Golden Triangle Haiku Contest, 2017

  • lightning

    lightning

    Originally posted on 日本文化の愛 Nipponbunka no ai: How admirable! to see lightning and not think life is fleeting. -Matsuo Basho ? Art by Utagawa Kuniyoshi, “Ama no Hashidate, in Rain and Lightning”

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Frank J. Tassone

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

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