Frank J. Tassone

Haijin in Action

  • Flattening Curve Fantasy: a #TankaProse

    This is what we strive for, now. The hope that daylight lies ahead of us. The hope that a flattening curve means life will return to normal. The hope that the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic is at an end. Some societies begin to reopen. Spaniards take to the streets to exercise, while Italians look…

  • My Daily #Haiku (5/2/20)

    5/2/20: bubble twitteringbeyond social mediathe rising sun #haiku #micropoetry #poetry

  • Grief-stricken: an .@ImageCurve #haibun

    Mira cries. She opens her arms and holds them out toward me. I envelop her. Feel her chest heave with the staccato beat of a carpenter’s hammering. Listen to her muffled sobs. All I can do is hold her. Reassure her that she’s not alone as a lifetime’s grief swallows her. damp collargrasshopper songsfade in…

  • Relentless

    Originally posted on haiku tree: tiny bugs relentlessly buzz around my face ?

  • gathering

    Originally posted on Haiku Gravy: blown blossom overflowing potholes

  • spring – – haiku

    Originally posted on Ontheland: spring the miracle of apple green from grey April 28, 2020 ©️2020 Ontheland

  • “fresh clouds…” a #tanka (5/1/20)

    5/1/20: unprompted fresh clouds filling up the first blue sky in days those “good people” brandishing AR-15s in Lansing #tanka #kyoka #micropoetry #poetry #coronavirus

  • Today’s Haiku (May 1, 2020)

    Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 汐干狩父が煙になっている  田島健一 shiohigari chichi ga kemuri ni natteiru             shellfish gathering             my father becomes             smoke                                                 Kenichi Tajima from “Tadanaranu Po” (Unusual ‘Po’), haiku collection of Kenichi Tajima, Furansu-do, Tokyo 2017 Fay’s Note:   ‘shiohigari’ (shellfish gathering) is a spring kigo.

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Frank J. Tassone

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

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