Frank J. Tassone

Category: haikai

  • #Haikai Challenge #86 (5/19/19) Blue Flower Moon #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka #haiga #renga

    Hope you managed to dry out, haijin! Congratulations to last week’s contributors: Haikai Challenge Participants 1. The Dark Netizen2. Pat R3. Tessa 4. Janice5. Jules6. Deborah 7. Linda Lee Lyberg8. Revived Writer Powered by… Mister Linky’s Magical Widgets. Onward! The clouds broke in time. Summer temperatures arose in the New York Metropolitan area this weekend.…

  • “Road to Emmaus…” a #tanka (5/19/19)

    5/19/19: bilocation road to Emmaus while in Jerusalem, “We have seen the Lord!” the felt bilocation of sitting where the mind isn’t #tanka #micropoetry #poetry

  • My Daily #Haiku (5/19/19)

    5/19/19: corner handprinted window in the upper right corner Flower Moon #haiku #micropoetry #poetry

  • Peace: a #TankaProse

    A still pond. Canopies of maple, oak, white birch and pine reflect without blemish across it. Then the first drop falls. Ripples radiate out. More drops; more ripples, overlapping each other. The perfect reflection becomes a wavering array of verdant images twisted on an ever-trembling membrane. Soon, a blurry, raincloud gray is all the pond…

  • My Daily #Haiku (5/18/19)

    5/18/19: tarot cards harvest moon a tarot card reading she fails to finish #haiku #micropoetry #poetry

  • Smuggs Chronicle ’14: Interlude II: Meditation moment this morning (an .@ImageCurve #Haibun)

    Tightness in my throat. Remembering Mrs. Zengo’s confused disappointment. How hurt those brown eyes in that wrinkly forehead that creased with her frown. How sorry I felt—and unforgiven—until she realized I brought in an egg for another student’s recipe. I had overheard their conversation and mistakenly thought I needed to bring in that hard-boiled egg.…

  • My Daily #Haiku (5/17/19)

    5/17/19: seaweed dragon roll … seaweed saladleft on the side #haiku #senryu #micropoetry #poetry

  • A Quart-milk Container Bird Enthusiast

    It is a pretty bird. An Arts and Crafts instructor at Woodland camp showed us how to make them out of quart-milk containers. She dips papier mache wrapping into different colored dyes to make the foliage. Then she wraps the papier mache around the container. She walks around the paint-splattered tables in the cavernous, beige-painted…