Frank J. Tassone

Haijin in Action

  • Turnabout: a #NaPoWriMo2020 / #GloPoWriMo2020 #tankaprose

    “One can live without having survived.” Carolyn Forche A fruit basket, delivered to a hotel room–covered in lighter fluid. A patronizing condescension during a class introduction: “one of our special people.” The abject fear with which the six-foot-something boy in a man’s body commanded. If only he had understood the old Portugese saying: “Beware the…

  • Curfew: Day 29

    #Haiku Happenings #9: Rajani’s latest poetic #haibun!

  • Nature’s Way (Earth Day 2020)

    Originally posted on K.: “Only when the last tree has died and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish has been caught will we realize we cannot eat money.”—Cree Proverb I attended the first Earth Day celebration in Washington DC in 1970.  I was 18 years old, full of hope and energy. …

  • in its shadowed form ~ haiku

    Originally posted on rivrvlogr: in its shadowed form new moon filled with hope for man waiting for moonlight This haiku is my response to Frank Tassone’s #Haikai Challenge #135: New Moon. ? ~ Day 19 ~ Image: New Moon hidden by Missouri’s cloudy sky

  • “the droning of…” a #tanka (4/22/20)

    4/22/20: prompt-free the droning of lawnmowers and leafblowers on this Earth Day as sunlit trees sway in a cold spring wind #tanka #micropoetry #poetry #NaPoWriMo2020 #GloPoWriMo2020

  • April dawn – – haiku

    Originally posted on Ontheland: April dawn a dusting of white on spring green . . ©️2020 Ontheland

  • EarthRise Rolling Haiku Collaboration 2020

    EarthRise Rolling Haiku Collaboration 2020

    #Haiku Happenings #5: Xenia Trans’ latest haiku appear in THF’s EarthRise Rolling Haiku Collaboration 2020!

  • Today’s Haiku (April 22, 2020)

    Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 東京の水といふ水に花散る日　　上田信治 tokyô no mizu to iu mizu ni hana chiru hi             over every water in Tokyo             cherry petals fall             today                                                 Shinji Ueda from ‘Haiku,’ a monthly haiku magazine, June 2016 Issue, Kabushiki Kaisha Kadokawa, Tokyo

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Frank J. Tassone

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

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