Frank J. Tassone

Haijin in Action

  • Publication Alert! (4/20/20)

    I’m pleased to have the following two haiku appear in The Haifu Foundations’s EarthRise Rolling Haiku Collaboration 2020: Thank you, Jim Kacian! Congratulations, haijin!

  • Influencer

    Originally posted on Waar mijn pen ligt, ben ik thuis: * nauwelijks zichtbaar roerganger van het getij op de levenszee barely visible yet controlling time and tide dark side of the moon kaum sichtbarer Freund Steuermann von Ebb und Flut auf dem weiten Meer ami bien caché conducteur de la marée sur la mer de…

  • “City Lights” ©J.E.Goldie #Haikai Challenge #135 (4/18/20): New Moon April 18 2020

    Originally posted on Starlight and Moonbeams: https://frankjtassone.com/2020/04/18/haikai-challenge-135-4-18-20-new-moon-haiku-senryu-haibun-tanka-haiga-renga/ “This week, write the haikai poem of your choice (haiku, senryu, haibun, tanka, haiga, renga, etc.) that alludes to the new moon.” Frank J.Tassone I’ve attempted to write a Gogyohka. A 5 line poetry or song, with no fixed syllable pattern. For me, when the Moon is asleep,…

  • #Haikai Challenge #135: New Moon

    Originally posted on Tao-Talk: The lunatics wait for her arrival each month – when she is all theirs. * * * Her lasting beauty needs its sleep; she retires to a darkened chamber. * * * New Moon gives stars a chance to take center stage, but only once a month. * * * Jealous…

  • A clean-up Wike: a #NaPoWriMo2020 / #GloPoWriMo2020 #haibun

    The Long Path trailhead parking lot–filled to capacity. All the lonely people–mostly from New Jersey–have arrived to embrace nature and unleash that howl they’ve pent up all week. In the course of exercising their resolve at this fixture of Harriman State Park, they leave a lot of trash behind. That’s why we’ve come with so…

  • “a week…” a #tanka (4/19/20)

    4/19/20: unprompted a week of gray skies and cold rain shattered by sunlight the hiker wants the outside while the haijin keeps writing #tanka #micropoetry #poetry #NaPoWriMo2020 #GloPoWriMo2020

  • My Daily #Haiku (4/19/20)

    4/19/20: cart soaring Bald eagle …a homeless motherpushes her cart #haiku #micropoetry #poetry #NaPoWriMo2020 #GloPoWriMo2020

  • Novel-Coronal Hope: a #NaPoWriMo2020 / #GloPoWriMo2020 #AmericanSentence #TankaProse

    “…so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” Gandalf, “The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring,” J.R.R. Tolkien We do not face the abyss alone, for the…

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Frank J. Tassone

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

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