Frank J. Tassone

Category: haikai

  • My Daily #Haiku (5/4/20)

    5/4/20: thunder maple bloom —the time betweenlightening and thunder #haiku #micropoetry #poetry

  • A Dragon-Riding Day (9/18/14): an .@ImageCurve #haibun

    I leave late. The traffic begins at the Garden State Parkway connector. The New York State Thruway, covered in fiberglass and steel, stretches into the blinding brilliance of sunrise. I arrive at work after 8, when I needed to get there well before. taillightsthe long gap in frontof the car before me I turn my…

  • #Haikai Challenge #137 (5/3/20): Flower Moon #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka #haiga #renga

    How about those last Cherry Blossoms, haijin! Congratulations to last week’s contributors: Haikai Challenge Participants 1. Li/Lisa2. Dave Madden3. Jen Goldie4. Pat R 5. Eugenia6. Jules7. Xenia Tran8. Xenia Tran (2) 9. Pat R10. Janice11. Frank J. Tassone12. Kerfe Roig Powered by… Mister Linky’s Magical Widgets. Looking ahead: May! The time of flowers (in the…

  • “birdsongs…” a #tanka (5/3/20)

    5/3/2020: unprompted birdsongs and leaf-blowers fill the air another blue-sky day holds the promise of summer #tanka #micropoetry #poetry

  • My Daily #Haiku (5/3/20)

    5/3/20: splinter gardening dayfirst aid for removinga splinter #haiku #micropoetry #poetry

  • Bleak Awakening: an .@ImageCurve #haibun

    The passing of faces or the flipping of pages, the same feeling permeates the last spoken words I recall from my dream: they won’t listen. The tension: tightness, shortness of breath, exhaustion from that frustration: “they won’t listen.” I fight the conviction, the accusing voice condemning from shadow, sounding like myself: “I am ineffectual. Impotent.…

  • Flattening Curve Fantasy: a #TankaProse

    This is what we strive for, now. The hope that daylight lies ahead of us. The hope that a flattening curve means life will return to normal. The hope that the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic is at an end. Some societies begin to reopen. Spaniards take to the streets to exercise, while Italians look…

  • My Daily #Haiku (5/2/20)

    5/2/20: bubble twitteringbeyond social mediathe rising sun #haiku #micropoetry #poetry