Frank J. Tassone

Haijin in Action

  • Our Folly, Desire: a #NaPoWriMo2020 / #GloPoWriMo2020 #quadrille – #haibun

    We don’t know what we want. We ask, don’t receive. Flush our sleeves with vain tears! We receive, and oh, woe! Unintended consequences, our sorrowful song. “Some quality time at home would be nice…” mispent wish … the gift we can’t keep or give away

  • Haiku of Issa: from The Essential Haiku, edited by Robert Hass

    Originally posted on Lady Nyo's Weblog: (Painting above by the author  below) — I have had “The Essential haiku: Versions of Basho, Buson, and Issa” for a few years and have only really gotten to Basho. But recently reading Issa, (Issa means Cup-of-Tea), the world of haiku opened up in ways I didn’t expect. I…

  • Tanka: New Moon

    #Haiku Happenings #8: Astrid’s latest #tanka for my current #haikai challenge!

  • New Moon

    Originally posted on revivedwriter: NaPoWriMo day 20: a haiku for Frank’s prompt. I hope to post again today, as I have been writing several poems, just without being sure if they are good or not. 😅  Monthly syzygy: Certainly sun’s light still shines, Luna still exists. Photo by samer daboul on Pexels.com

  • My Daily #Haiku

    4/20/20: voices subdued voicessaying “420 blaze it” …#CoronaVirus #haiku #senryu #micropoetry #poetry #NaPoWriMo2020 #GloPoWriMo2020

  • New Moon Ninja

    New Moon Ninja

    #Haiku Happenings #6: Dave Madden’s latest #senryu for my current #haikai challenge!

  • Monthly Reset

    Monthly Reset

    #Haiku Happenings #5: Eugenia’s latest haiku for my current #haikai challenge!

  • Blue in Green

    Originally posted on Alphabet City: A cardinal family has made a small holly bush their home, very near by garden gate. When I approach I whistle, not hum, Miles Davis’s opening solo from So What. The modality, the D dorian riffs and bluesy slurry passing tones, soothe the tawny female, who used to flee the…

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Frank J. Tassone

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

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