Category: haikai
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Wayback Wednesday 8/16/17: a #Thanksgiving gone wrong…#writephoto #haibun #haiku #poetry
Conflicted Expectations We cleared gravy-stained plates and tainted wine glasses. The remains of the turkey could feed the five of us for days. It was the first year we didn’t host. Mom and Dad invited us downstairs instead. We had arranged to eat dinner with them and then travel to my Sister-in-law’s for dessert. She…
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#Tanka Tuesday: a walk through the storm…
this sudden rain washing out the road on my way even a point of light drives out the darkness
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#Monoku Monday: a #haibun on Peril of #charlottsville and the Promise of the #MontclairJazzFestival2017
Peril and Promise Who hasn’t heard the news of what happened Friday and Saturday, August 11th and 12th, in Charlottsville, Virginia? Who hasn’t see the photos of young, white men dressed in brownshirt uniforms or t-shirts and jeans, marching lockstep under Nazi or confederate flags, and not shivered? Who hasn’t seen the video of their night…
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#Senryu Saturday: the latest sampler of human insight…or not!
cold rain her search for the leggings she misplaced rain patter the haibun I didn’t type the haiku I wrote backyard breeze a contractor next door cheers again sunlit lawn a monkey-mind chases Facebook posts Promises we never keep summer wind
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Free-style Friday 8/11/17: Today, a #haiku sequence on a past neighborhood…
Webber Park Glimpses engine’s roar a race down Holland Avenue to catch that school bus growling black mut piercing pain of his teeth puncturing my butt spinning on the merry-go-round a walk past headstones swinging an old goodyear tied to an apple tree
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ICYMI: my latest #Haibun #Poetry: Ascension | .@ImageCurve
Ascension BY FRANK J. TASSONE · 10TH AUGUST 2017 Haibun A flash of red. A cardinal perches high on a prematurely blossoming maple. He marks his territory, repeatedly singing the same crescendo. Moments later, he’s gone. No bird takes his place. Ides of March pine needles fluttering in the wind more by FRANK J. TASSONE photo by Jessica Furtney on Unsplash…
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Throwdown Thursday 8/10/17: my latest #Haibun #Poetry: Ascension | on .@ImageCurve
Ascension A flash of red. A cardinal perches high on a prematurely blossoming maple. He marks his territory, repeatedly singing the same crescendo. Moments later, he’s gone. No bird takes his place. Ides of March pine needles fluttering in the wind more by FRANK J. TASSONE photo by Jessica Furtney on Unsplash first published in Image…
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Publication update 8/9/17: happy that my latest #haiku is up on Haiku in the Workplace: Working from Home
coffee in bed finishing the last lesson at sunrise — Frank J. Tassone THF’s Haiku in the Workplace: Working From Home
