Frank J. Tassone

Category: haikai

  • #Haikai Challenge #148 (7/18/20): summer meadow (natsuno) #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka #haiga #renga

    Enduring the heat, haijin? I hope so! Congratulations to last week’s contributors: Haikai Challenge Participants 1. Li/Lisa2. Eugenia3. Christine Bialczak4. Pat5. s.s.6. Dave Madden 7. Jane Dougherty8. Janice9. Jules10. Petru Viljoen11. Xenia Tran12. Tessa Dean 13. Peter14. Kerfe Roig15. Revived Writer16. Linda Lee Lyberg17. Christine Bolton18. Li/Lisa (2) Powered by… Mister Linky’s Magical Widgets. Ultreya!…

  • A Palisades Park Hike: a #tanka-prose

    Stateline Lookout, in Palisades Interstate Park. An old state road runs along the top of the Palisades overlooking the western shore of the Hudson River. Five-hundred feet above the water, the views extend from the new Tappan Zee bridge to the edge of the Bronx. Our two-mile loop hike–following a trail down the cliffs to…

  • My Daily #Haiku (7/18/20)

    7/18/20: hunger another scorcher —a still unsatisfiedhunger for justice #haiku #micropoetry #poetry #BlackLivesMatter

  • “Who Am I?” -a #haibun

    I am Chuang Chou dreaming he is a butterfly. I am the butterfly dreaming he is Chuang Chou. I am the dream of Chuang Chou and butterfly being each other. I am the complement between them. I am the Way you can’t go, the Name you can’t say. I am the unnamed origin of Heaven…

  • “tossed sheet…” a #tanka (7/17/20)

    7/17/20: PROMPT: sleeplessness tossed sheets the rambling thoughts and sensations up and down constantly on those insomnial nights #tanka #micropoetry #poetry

  • My Daily #Haiku (7/17/20)

    7/17/20: darkness before dawnstarsblinking out #haiku #micropoetry #poetry

  • “Meet the Teachers”: an .@ImageCurve #haibun

    We sit in G’s new room. H. grades papers. Ilana checks her messages. D has his iPad open. Judy arrives with a handful of parents. She presents; one asks a question. Then another. Soon after, they leave for another “workshop.” H. resumes grading. I work on an IEP. D and Anthony, who arrived with the…

  • My Daily #Haiku (7/16/20)

    7/16/20: excitement arms in the airas he receives his Life badge —afternoon birdsongs #haiku #micropoetry #poetry