Frank J. Tassone

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  • Curfew: Day 31

    #Haiku Happenings #3: Rajani’s latest poetic #haibun!

  • sweet … Haiku Friday 4.24

    Originally posted on whimsy~mimsy: your teeth sink into the powdered sugar donut it dusts your black shirt snow still caps the mountaintops faintly visible at dawn . sugar on your lip I remember the sweetness well after dinner . honey in green tea steam rises from the surface faint smile on your lips leaning against…

  • White

    Originally posted on haiku tree: white flowers two fly away butterflies ?

  • Today’s Haiku (April 24, 2020)

    Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 夜は城と高さを競ひ白木蓮　　鶴岡加苗 yo wa shiro to takasa o kisoi hakumokuren at night it competes with a castle which is taller white magnolia                                                             Kanae Tsuruoka from ‘Haidan,’ (‘Haiku Stage’) a monthly haiku magazine, April 2017 Issue, Honami Shoten, Tokyo

  • Social Shakespearean Note: a #NaPoWriMo2020 / #GloPoWriMo2020 sole #Renga

    “To thine own self, be true…” Polonius, “Hamlet” Act 1, scene 3. an April night like any other, except it’s the Bard’s birthday “What of it, when scholars say legions of monkeys will do?” a starless sky and the debate over his relevance goes on “What can Shakespeare say to us that televised moon landings?”…

  • Curfew: Day 30

    Originally posted on THOUGHT PURGE: How did a tiny pathogen, pressing down on a fault line, break our world – split it wide open, so half of humanity now walks the tightrope between disease and hunger, life and despair clutched evenly in both hands? As if the universe has opened its third eye, as if…

  • Drama

    Originally posted on haiku tree: 3 a.m. last night’s drama still on my mind ?

  • Becoming my mother . . .

    Originally posted on A Poet in Time: ? ? A Thousand Voices, 2019 Tanka Society of America Member’s Anthology   sweet peas, crab apple blossoms and old roses— for part of each day I become my mother ? ?

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Frank J. Tassone

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

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