Frank J. Tassone

Haijin in Action

  • Daily Haiku: June 20, 2023

    Originally posted on Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog: minefields from one hill to another a donkey’s bray by Marta Chocilowska (Poland) Stardust Haiku, Issue 7, July 2017  

  • Drawers

    Originally posted on Heed not Steve: almost summerhis swimsuits still folded –almost summer —— © Steve Mitchell 2023 

  • My Daily #Haiku (6/20/23)

    6/20/23: sundial a shadow across the sundial before solstice #haiku #micropoetry #poetry

  • Today’s Haiku (June 20, 2023)

    Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): むらさきのこゑを山辺に夏燕　　　飯田蛇笏 murasaki no koe o yamabe ni natsu-tsubame ??????????? its voice in purple ??????????? near the mountain ??????????? a summer skylark ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? Dakotsu Iida from Haiku Dai-Saijiki (Comprehensive Haiku Saijiki), Kadokawa Shoten, Tokyo, 2006 Fay’s Note:? Dakotsu Iida (1885-1962)

  • turning a page

    Originally posted on Haiku Art Site: turning a pageof a new-used booklight rests on green leaves Photo by Skyler Ewing on Pexels.com

  • A Cup of Water #TankaTuesday #Ekphrastic #tanka

    Originally posted on Trent's World (the Blog): A Cup of Water and a Rose by Francisco de Zurbarán Four hundred years lostStill as fresh as the presentYour essence capturedBlobs of color make it realEveryday made immortal *** Written for Colleen’s weekly poetry challenge. This week the challenge was to write an Ekphrastic, a poem that…

  • Junteenth: a Journey

    An impeccably-dressed General Lee presented his sword to a slovenly-uniformed General Grant on April 9th of 1865. The army of Virginia, the great hope of the Confederacy, surrendered. The United States Civil War officially ended on May 13th of the same year. What could that mean for Black slaves in and around Galveston, Texas? Their…

  • 6.18.23 dream haiku

    Originally posted on Basho and Jung: I let all the insects leave then go in to look for you

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Frank J. Tassone

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

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