Frank J. Tassone

Haijin in Action

  • I, Chicken Parmesan

    I rise from a corpse of poultry. Cold steel flays the fat off of me. Yellow yoke bathes me, before immersion in flour and breadcrumbs completes me. I first face the fire in a vat of boiling oil. Every impurity scourged from me, my texture a golden brown, warm marinara sauce pours upon me. The…

  • Soft April Sunrise–Tanka Haibun

    Originally posted on therichardbraxton: Sometimes the day imposes itself breaking you out of your own concentration. At least that is what you like to tell yourself when you have a short bout of writer’s block. But what is really in the way are the clothes that need folding, and the podcast that you just don’t…

  • Originally posted on elancharan gunasekaran: shadows retire and new bonds form spring mist

  • Spring Dance

    Originally posted on thoughts and entanglements: a pair of cardinals in my garden – in spring dance they zip here, fly there pecking at freshly tilled soil a cold and windy spring day Pat 4/20/22 For Ronovan Writes Haiku where the prompt “Zip & Fly”. To participate or just read go here

  • “spring day…” a #tanka (4/20/22)

    4/20/22: farm spring day she remembers life on the farm as the grass grows greener all around #tanka#micropoetry#poetry#napowrimo2022#glopowrimo2022#npm2022

  • rarely at your grave

    Originally posted on Haiku Art Site: rarely at your grave –geranium blooms freelyon your workshop stool My haiku was published first in?Modern Haiku?(Fall 1996). Previous posts in this series: birds perch old photos Photo by Keijiro Takahashi on Pexels.com

  • Today’s Haiku (April 20, 2022)

    Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): メトロノームのやうな雨音春障子　　　石井清吾 metoronômu no yô na amaoto haru-shôji ??????????? sound of rain ??????????? like a metronome ??????????? spring paper screen ??????????????????????????????????????????????? Seigo Ishii from Haidan, (Haiku Stage) a monthly haiku magazine, January 2017 Issue, Honami Shoten, Tokyo

  • 020

    Originally posted on The Lotus: letting go the string at the command of the kite – the Easter weekend

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Frank J. Tassone

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

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