Frank J. Tassone

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  • My Daily #Haiku (4/20/22)

    4/20/22: fruit-bearing tree a barrenapple treespring gust #haiku #micropoetry #poetry #napowrimo2022 #glopowrimo2022 #npm2022

  • English-Language Haiku Competitions

    English-Language Haiku Competitions

    Originally posted on Gregory Piko: In recent months, one of my haiku received an Honourable Mention in a Croatian haiku competition while another received an Honourable Mention in an Irish contest. With a number of countries now running competitions for haiku written in English, I thought it might be helpful to provide links to various…

  • It’s Beer Thirty Somewhere

    Originally posted on Heed not Steve: windy afternoon –two solo cups blow throughthe parking lot —— © Steve Mitchell 2022 

  • CH Dreams – old silk cotton

    Originally posted on Cafe Haiku: by Dr Brijesh Raj MiasMa sunrise to moonsetthe old silk cottonaburst with dreams The tectonic shift to nightmare is the rancidness of a marriage gone bad. Guided to the big city with filmy delusions, she is wed as per norms to an older gent of insatiable appetites and a pathologically…

  • Mythic Menagerie

    The last traces of blue sky shrink away. A mass of moist gray swells in its place. Still, the budding maple leaves on the trees across the street reflect the golden hue of setting sun. For a moment. across this mad inscape purple tigers for dVerse Poets’ Poetics: Naming the Rose (pubtended by Merril Smith).…

  • “even…” a #tanka (4/19/22)

    4/19/22: abandoned even a lifetime later this ache “…why did you abandon me?” #tanka#micropoetry#poetry#napowrimo2022#glopowrimo2022#npm2022

  • Debbie Strange’s “Warp and Weft ~ Images and Words: Whitehorse Public Library Haiku Display, April 2022”

    #Haiku Happenings #6: Debbie Strange’s 5th honorable mention in the 2018 Robert Spiess Memorial Haiku Awards! longer days . . . I knight my sister with an icicle 5th Honourable Mention2018 Robert Spiess Memorial Haiku Award Competition Warp and Weft ~ Images and Words: Whitehorse Public Library Haiku Display, April 2022

  • Haibun for the friend who never left

    Originally posted on Jane Dougherty Writes: The NaPoWriMo prompt couldn’t be more appropriate. My husband had a dream a few nights ago, more vivid than any dream he had ever had before. In the dream, he walked into the kitchen where I was preparing a meal. The children were in and out, talking. He stopped…

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Frank J. Tassone

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

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