Frank J. Tassone

Haijin in Action

  • A #Troika #Quadrilla: Hawk-haunted “Rook-Delighting Heaven”

    I take on not one, not two, but three challenges at once with a form I’ve never used before! For Carpe Diem’s Weekend Meditation 5, ancient warriors between battle and peace writing haiku © Chèvrefeuille falling to the ground a flower closer to the root bidding farewell © Basho Jane Dougherty’s A Month with Yeats:…

  • Smooth and Hand: Ronovan Writes Weekly Haiku Poetry Prompt Challenge #174

    Originally posted on Fleeting Muse: Innocent children Unwilling recruits of war God’s smooth hands ravaged

  • Trinity

    Originally posted on Jilly's: three black vultures rise tilt, turn in the white morning sun plumes of death trail behind contrails, circle above landing planes thermal-driven without effort father, son, holy ghost © Jilly’s  All Rights Reserved A Cherita for Jane Dougherty’s A Month with Yeats: Day 4  Also posting to Frank J. Tassone’s Challenge #6…

  • Daily Haiku: Nov. 6, 2017

    Originally posted on Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog: midnight train – a whistle the length of late night blues by Sandi Pray  (USA)

  • Ancient Warriors

    Ancient Warriors

    Originally posted on Smell The Coffee: Chèvrefeuille has tasked us with writing a troiku; expanding  each separate line from an original haiku. One is by Chèvrefeuille and the other by Basho. ancient warriors between battle and peace writing haiku © Chèvrefeuille ancient warriors never giving up the fight weathered hands make war between battle and…

  • The old village

    The old village

    Originally posted on 日本文化の愛 Nipponbunka no ai: This old village not a single house without persimmon trees. -Matsuo Basho ? Art by Norikane Hiroto, “The sunset in a village” ?

  • (untitled gembun)

    Originally posted on the other bunny: dust in the inkwell… ? midnight train– the journey back to deepest darkest Peru Susan Beth Furst

  • Haiku – River Nihil

    Originally posted on qbit: Not a soul about – Saints and sinners come to naught Story of our lives ? For Frank’s Haikai Challenge

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Frank J. Tassone

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

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