Frank J. Tassone

Haijin in Action

  • Mare Tranquillitatis’ “Harvest Moon…”

    #Haiku Happenings #2: Eva Limbach’s haiku appears in the 2019 Haiku Calendar! Erntemond – eine streunende Katze sucht den Futternapf ***** harvest moon a stray cat scrounging for food Haiku-Kalender 2019 Mare Tranquillitatis — Read on evamaria-limbach2.blogspot.com/2019/09/blog-post_13.html

  • whorl

    Originally posted on Haiku Gravy: Friday morningmy eyes follow the whorlsdownstream

  • Another Insomnial Evening: my latest @ImageCurve #haibun

    We lie down at 11:00 in the evening. My feet, legs, elbows feel twisted and itchy. And the sheet feels like a burial shroud. A flood of thoughts and images arise, a torrent from nowhere. Meanwhile, the darkness presses in. But sleep doesn’t come with it. Not until after five, as the rising light of…

  • “fleeing civilians…” a #tanka (9/12/19)

    9/12/19: inspired by the 2019 Sanford Goldstein International Tanka Contest Winners fleeing civilians and soon-abandoned streets covered in ash the first sunrise over Ground Zero inspired by “muddy foxhole…” First Place winnerDorothy McLaughlin http://www.tankasocietyofamerica.org/tsa-contest/winners-and-judges-comments/2019-sanford-goldstein-international-tanka-contest-winners?fbclid=IwAR1BbYF3l86tU-mAsbBdrP2FIIB0pDK1ICw5Q5nCRiXnN5ETrphWVozc2I0

  • Haiku Dialogue: ambiguity

    Originally posted on Martha Magenta: ? curved river a mother of many children ? Haiku Dialogue: ambiguity ? Trouthswirl, The Haiku Foundation Blog, 4 September 2019 https://www.thehaikufoundation.org/2019/09/04/haiku-dialogue-poets-choice-ambiguity/?fbclid=IwAR3gDjH2U7bYnWizUTi8Q_5gv8jB8psYF6eD-m-S8Guup7BTO16D8SiOB6o

  • Today’s Haiku (September 12, 2019)

    Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 秋の夜のカクテルの名もマンハッタン　　西村和子 aki no yo no kakuteru no na mo manhattan             autumn night             a name of the cocktail is             Manhattan, too                                                 Kazuko Nishimura from ‘Haidan,’ (‘Haiku Stage’) a monthly haiku magazine, Decenber 2015 Issue, Honami Shoten, Tokyo

  • Waking the Lion

    #Haiku Happenings #4: Al Gallia’s latest #haibun! Searching for Serendipity Waking the Lion ‘9/11”. What American over the age of twenty-something doesn’t remember this horrific day from some personal perspective? This question is on my mind this morning as I watch our Presidents memorial address at the Pentagon. Through time’s haze, I recall the radio…

  • My Daily #Haiku (9/12/19)

    9/12/19: orchids rainfall waiting for orchids to bloom #haiku #micropoetry #poetry

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Frank J. Tassone

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

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