Frank J. Tassone

Haijin in Action

  • Anniversary: 3 years of Haikai Matters!

    Delighted to celebrate my third anniversary today! Thank you for sharing this haikai journey with me! poem by poem letting everyone know haikai matters

  • Lepidopteric* Encounters: An .@ImageCurve #haibun

    We step through the second door, entering the arbortorium, and feel saturated by semi-tropical heat and humidity! Large palms and other representative flora grow out of the center. The palm branches shelter the pathways. All around are the butterflies. A large one with brown, splotchy wings lands on Frankie’s head. He’s seated on one of…

  • Today’s Haiku (October 1, 2019)

    Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): はじまりはヲロチの涙秋の川　　大谷弘至 hajimari wa orochi no namida aki no kawa             its beginning is             monster serpent’s tears             autumn river                                                             Hiroshi Ohtani from ‘Haidan,’ (‘Haiku Stage’) a monthly haiku magazine, Octoberl 2016 Issue, Honami Shoten, Tokyo

  • Warp and Weft ~ Images and Words: The Heron’s Nest, Vol. 21, Number 3, September 2019

    #Haiku Happenings #8: Debbie Strange’s latest haiku appears in the Heron’s Nest! summer solstice the length of a beaver’s incisors deserted farm the random acts of hollyhocks Warp and Weft ~ Images and Words: The Heron’s Nest, Vol. 21, Number 3, September 2019

  • late summer

    Originally posted on Shore/lines: Otata #49, October 2019 late summer wingbeat by wingbeat golden-ringed dragonfly

  • Publication Announcement (10/1/19)

    Happy to have one of my haiku published in “A Moment’s Longing,” the Haiku Society of America’s Members’ Anthology 2019. In case anyone has trouble seeing the photo: winter sun a shallow understanding of the problem “A Moment’s Longing” p. 65, HSA Members’ Anthology 2019, Tayna McDonald, Editor Thank you, Tayna McDonald, for all of…

  • “low flying hawk…” a #tanka (10/1/19)

    10/1/19: unprompted low-flying hawk another sip of mediocre red oh, but to be there now instead of waiting here! #tanka #micropoetry #poetry

  • two ‘ku

    Originally posted on weird laburnum: distended howl of a wolf spins stars cloud gazing a fish wearing cowboy boots  Veronika Zora Novak 

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Frank J. Tassone

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

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