Frank J. Tassone

Haijin in Action

  • Vernal Epiphany

    A stirring. Darkness ripples, and a sharp pain pierces through this enshrouding numbness. The silence once again resumes that tangible quality, the childbirth pangs of language ready to emerge. The black molts into a brightening gray, then bleeds off like ink diluted in water. Images arise, evoking words after an everlong muteness. The echoes of…

  • Renewal

    Originally posted on lillian the home poet: During the season of cherry blossoms, after more than fifty years of being separated by more than six-thousand miles, we met again. This gentle man, Kenji, who I knew only for one year, all those years ago. So many changes in the world since last we’d seen each…

  • Haibun Monday 3-28-22: Cherry Blossoms

    Originally posted on dVerse: Welcome to another Haibun Monday, poets! Frank J. Tassone here, and today, we again write haibun, that blend of prose-poetry and haiku. As we’re a week into spring, let’s embrace a traditional Spring kigo: cherry blossoms! As I said last year: Blooming from mid-March to late April, Cherry trees produce an…

  • Haiku: Eyes so Blue – Whippet Wisdom – a Highland Journey

    #Haiku Happenings #8: Xenia Trans’ latest haiku appears in Presence! eyes so blue the child’s first glimpse of the sea © Xenia Tran Presence #72, March 2022 Haiku: Eyes so Blue – Whippet Wisdom – a Highland Journey

  • Today’s Haiku (March 28, 2022)

    Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 春陰や放射線室地下の奥　　　織田美奈子　　　　 shunin ya hôshasen-shitsu chika no oku ??????????? cloudy spring— ??????????? a radiation room in the depth ??????????? at a basement floor? ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? Minako Orita from Haiku Dai-Saijiki (Comprehensive Haiku Saijiki), Kadokawa Shoten, Tokyo, 2006

  • “gathering clouds…” a #tanka (3/28/22)

    3/28/22: below gathering clouds“as above, so below”echoes in my mindthis second week of springanother chill breeze #tanka #micropoetry #poetry

  • Over Troubled Waters

    Originally posted on the other bunny: trolley wheels beneath me floating island gleam in the eye of one nurse to another mask to mask has she heard of haiku and yes I am a grandmother full grown cygnets the brown flood waters white with sunlight nearly over now a gleam in the eye of one…

  • Weightless

    Originally posted on William Michaelian: Cherry blossoms — nothing to want in this world, and little to need. . [ 1416 ]

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Frank J. Tassone

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

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