Frank J. Tassone

evergreens and ferns

By Frank J. Tassone on June 23, 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

Originally posted on Poems From Oostburg, Wisconsin:
reading haikuthe generous new growthof evergreens green fernsin morning lightbird songs “reading haiku” Charlotte Digregorio’s Writer’s BlogDaily Haiku: June 21, 2019 “green ferns”Poems From Oostburg, WisconsinJuly 16, 2021

Today’s Haiku (June 23, 2022)

By Frank J. Tassone on June 23, 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi):
口にして父の名重し柿の花　　永島靖子 kuchi ni shite chichi no na omoshi kaki no hana ??????????? when I say it ??????????? father’s name sounds heavy ??????????? persimmon blossoms ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? Yasuko Nagashima from Haiku Dai-Saijiki (Comprehensive Haiku Saijiki), Kadokawa Shoten, Tokyo, 2006

By Frank J. Tassone on June 23, 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

Originally posted on Echidna Tracks:
trackless sanddesert wind erasesa mulga’s path Jahan Tyson Wanda Amos

Under Pressure

By Frank J. Tassone on June 22, 2022 • ( 5 Comments )

The omega. Always the last to feed, despite my part in the hunt. Always the butt of snickers, warning growls, scuffles—and the bites and flesh tearings that drive me apart. Always the omega. All because I run to my own heartbeat. Because my howl is my own. Because […]

Boiling Point. by Alan Peat

By Frank J. Tassone on June 22, 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

Originally posted on Haiku Basecamp:
Boiling Point. I sleep like a forgotten milk pan. At first dreams simmer on the stove of night – birds dive through my shuttered canopy; I watch from a rock in a sea of browning moss. Then the past rises up as insistent…