Frank J. Tassone

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  • #Haiku Happenings #7: Scott Metz presents a #monoku by Kemar Cummings!

  • These mortal choices: a #Writephoto #TankaProse

    A fresh bank of cumulus clouds floats across the sky. The bare maple branches atop the trees in the front yard gently sway in the light breeze. The near-midafternoon sun casts their pale shadows across neighbors’ houses like so much shadow theater. Except for the cold, it’s a day to visit their grave. Spring with…

  • Dave Read Poetry

    #Haiku Happenings #6: Dave Read’s #tanka appears in Bamboo Hut! too lazy to clean the house for guests I polish my social smile  Bamboo Hut Winter 2020 Dave Read Poetry

  • Kat Lehmann (U.S.A.)

    Originally posted on Harusame: vernal equinox the forest swallows its mountain Comment: a haiku with classic tones and a harmonizing, pleasant juxtaposition (torihayashi 取はやし). In the Northern Hemisphere, the vernal or spring equinox (shunbun 春分) falls on March 20-21, gradually bringing longer and sunnier days. Moreover, the trees grow new leaves and life explodes with…

  • Sunday in Spring

    Sunday in Spring

    Originally posted on Kim Whysall-Hammond (The Cheesesellers Wife): Two fields over, Rooks argue a raucous parley that goes on and on and on while other birds sing prettily Here in the meadow we have knelt as if worshipping to peer at tiny pink blooms wobbling on a frail stem On the way home we walk…

  • My Daily #Haiku (2/8/20)

    2/8/20: hunger and thirst the long walkfor bottled water …drought #haiku #micropoetry #poetry #NaHaiWriMo2020

  • blizzard – – haiku

    Originally posted on Ontheland: blizzard moon when will my mind let go of last year . ©️2019 2020 Ontheland

  • Today’s Haiku (February 8, 2020)

    Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 家のずっと深いところに冬椿　　武井栄次 ie no zutto fukai tokoro ni fuyutsubaki             very deep inside             of the house             a winter camelia                                                 Eiji Takei from “Haiku-kai” (“Haiku World,” a monthly haiku magazine, March 2017 Issue,  Bungaku No Mori, Tokyo ?

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Frank J. Tassone

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

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