Frank J. Tassone

Haijin in Action

  • Will You Know Praise

    #Haiku Happenings #4: Amaya Engleking’s latest #haibun!

  • #Haikai Challenge #6 (11/4/17): Saints and Souls #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka

    Here’s to last week’s participating poets, for their contributions to #haikai challenge #5 (10/28/17)–Halloween: Jilly–Trick or… Charley–Troiku–Night Fire revivedwriter–Halloween qbit–All Hallow’s Eve   Onward, now, to this week’s challenge: It’s November fourth. November 1st and 2nd collectively have been called the Catholic Days of the Dead. November the first is the Feast of All Saints…

  • A #Haibun for Imaginary Gardens with Real Toads–Get Listed: November Edition…#poetry #haiku

    Disordered Intent All those desires you deny in the daylight. The gleam of light off the handcuffs hanging from the headboard, the mutual screams in an empty house, the gnarled sheets. But how will you escape them during these lengthening nights? The lure of flesh will have its due. All your resolutions avail you not.…

  • A #tanka for A Month with Yeats: Day Four…#poetry

      shattered moonlight our clanking steel stained red in celestial blood Danann departing at dawn so much mist in the morning   for Jane Dougherty’s A Month with Yeats: Day Four

  • Today’s Haiku (November 4, 2017)

    Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): ジョーカーのからから笑ふ鵙日和　　小長谷敦子 jôkâ no karakara warau mozu biyori             Joker with a roar             of laughter             shrike weather                                                 Atsuko Kohase from ‘Haidan,’ (‘Haiku Stage’) a monthly haiku magazine, December 2016 Issue, Honami Shoten, Tokyo

  • Daily Haiku: Nov. 4, 2017

    Originally posted on Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog: through coils of mist just for a moment the grey heron by Angelee Deodhar  (India) Akita International Haiku Network, April 2013 ?

  • chinquapin tree

    chinquapin tree

    Originally posted on 日本文化の愛 Nipponbunka no ai: 秋空を　二つに断てり　椎大樹 Akizora wo    Futatsu ni tateri      Shii-taiju ? The autumn sky Is cut in two By the big chinquapin tree. -Takahama Kyoshi

  • Eufemia Griffo – Asahi Haikuist Network, September 29

    Originally posted on Memorie di una Geisha, multiblog internazionale di Haiku: afternoon tea drinking from the Victorian cup of an old aunt tè del pomeriggio bevendo dalla tazza vittoriana di una vecchia zia ~ Eufemia Griffo

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Frank J. Tassone

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

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