Frank J. Tassone

Category: haikai

  • Knife’s Edge

    A sliver between water, where families make their home. Leave for work. Return home. Celebrate birthdays, holidays. Live their lives. Until an inevitable day of packing and moving. By them, or others. “And so it goes…” the space between twilight and night turning tide for dVerse Poets’ Quadrille #183 – A Sliver of a Poem…

  • #Haiku (9/6/23)

    9/6/23: slice aroma  of a pizza slice twilight #haiku #micropoetry #poetry

  • Of Super Moons and Moves

    A steady stream of Spanish chatter woffs up from outside of the first floor apartment. The family residing there hosts a birthday party for one of their children. It’s a hot September afternoon, and only the hint of a breeze rustles the still-green leaves of the neighborhood trees. It’s our fifth day in our new…

  • My #Haiku (9/5/23)

    9/5/23: fluttering oak leaves— clenched in his dead hand a gold coin #haiku #micropoetry #poetry

  • My Daily #Haiku (6/21/23)

    6/21/23: rain cloudy with a chance of rain Summer Solstice #haiku #micropoetry #poetry

  • “wondering…” a #tanka (6/20/23)

    6/20/23: been wondering where you’ve been poetry the dry spell left by the muse #tanka#micropoetry#poetry

  • My Daily #Haiku (6/20/23)

    6/20/23: sundial a shadow across the sundial before solstice #haiku #micropoetry #poetry

  • Junteenth: a Journey

    An impeccably-dressed General Lee presented his sword to a slovenly-uniformed General Grant on April 9th of 1865. The army of Virginia, the great hope of the Confederacy, surrendered. The United States Civil War officially ended on May 13th of the same year. What could that mean for Black slaves in and around Galveston, Texas? Their…