Category: haikai
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My Daily #Haiku (10/5/19)
10/5/19: pierce contemplating a way to pierce the Veil … twilight #haiku #micropoetry #poetry
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An Environmental Prophet’s Welcome: a #tankaprose
Greta Thunberg sat alone outside her school. She had gone on strike to protest climate change. A year later, children throughout the world joined her. NYC students received exemption from school absense for participating in the strike. She even spoke before the UN General Assembly. For her courageous witness, a multitude of (mostly) conservative, climate-change-denying…
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My Daily #Haiku (10/4/19)
10/4/19: before the rain tired grasshopper …these freshly fallen leavesbefore the rain #haiku #micropoetry #poetry
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More Insomnial Moments: my latest .@ImageCurve #haibun
Quarter past midnight. The last remnant of relaxing chamomile leaves a tangy, bitter aftertaste. “Zigzagging to the light” plays across my mind as I put down an extended meditation on mentorship in Robert McDowell’s Poetry as a Spiritual Practice. I’ll face the bed again. And hope to get the sleep I desperately need. Perhaps I…
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My Daily #Haiku (10/3/19)
10/3/19: creak “Halloween”… jumping at the creak of every door #haiku #senryu #micropoetry #poetry
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My Daily #Haiku (10/2/19)
10/2/19: spicy record breaking heat the spicy hot latte I won’t have #haiku #senryu #micropoetry #poetry
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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
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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…
Frank J. Tassone 