Frank J. Tassone

Haijin in Action

  • Country Summer (Day 9)

    Country Summer (Day 9)

    Originally posted on Empty Verse: Here, in the wild countryside As the sun melts everything in its sight, The five feet tall grass becomes yellow, The landlady leaves pitchers of ice cold lemonade on the coffee tables, Others leave their half finished, sticky, glasses on the floor or beside the bed or on the porch.…

  • Curfew: Day 20

    #Haiku Happenings #7: Rajani’s latest #haibun!

  • “torrential rain…” a #tanka (4/13/20)

    4/13/20: unprompted torrential rain fluttering in the wind evergreen branches a sudden droopy-eyed contemplation of coffee #tanka #micropoetry #poetry #NaPoWriMo2020 #GloPoWriMo2020

  • not guilty – NaPoWriMo/GloPoWriMo Challenge Day 13

    Originally posted on like mercury colliding…: guilty, not sorry somebody had to do it… eat the last cookie ~kat And it was delicious! A haiku for today’s NaPoWriMo/GloPoWriMo Challenge Day 13: write a non-apology for the things you’ve stolen. ?

  • Today’s Haiku (April 13, 2020)

    Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 幹に手を当てて桜の言ふことを　　後藤比奈夫 miki nit e o atete sakura no iu koto o my hands touching the trunk I listen to what the cherry tree says                                                 Hinao Goto from ‘Haidan,’ (‘Haiku Stage’) a monthly haiku magazine, June 2017 Issue, Honami Shoten, Tokyo

  • Haibun: Looking Back

    Haibun: Looking Back

    #Haiku Happenings #4: Xenia Trans’ latest #haibun for my current #haikai challenge!

  • My Daily #Haiku (4/13/20)

    4/13/20: hole April showers …another day downthe CoVid rabbit hole #haiku #micropoetry #poetry #NaPoWriMo2020 #GloPoWriMo2020 #coronavirus

  • nd 4.12 trying times 3p – Jules Pens Some Gems…

    #Haiku Happenings #3: Jules’ latest solo #renga for my current #haikai challenge! trying times white lily past prime heady gentle perfume wafts through clumsy girls mask what to do with rough edges of emotions; bad poet… spills same psalm prayer – stuff ‘em in the urn; ashes, different words – death is there any true…

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Frank J. Tassone

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

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