Frank J. Tassone

Category: haikai

  • Absurd depositions

    Sometimes, you just have to say it: A laugh about fighting in shadeand then an unholy shout.Assured to leave death delayed,a laugh about fighting in shade.No reason to put on a pout:how would that even persuadeA laugh about fighting in shadeand then an unholy shout? Other times, you just shouldn’t. daylightthe first green grasson the…

  • Not Words

    faithless words betraying whatever they name like cowardice sliding off the brave man and woman across an open field life’s water their closed eyes turned away as words condemn them a reverse poem of Jane Hirschfield’s words Day 3 of

  • Sophiac Psalms

    A hoot in the dark, aloft on silent wings, a wisdom unheeded Ever flowing a meandering way, ever yielding and always overcoming In a tumultuous world, always chasing in every direction, how not A crackling roar splitting the sky of our complacency A haunting melody whose poignant lyrics we lose and find again Day 2…

  • My Daily #Haiku (4/2/22)

    4/2/23: limb limb from limb the tide still flows in and out #haiku #micropoetry #poetry #napowrimo #glopowrimo #napowrimo2023 #glopowrimo2023

  • Contracting Impressions

    Constellations, bearing light hundreds, to thousands of years old to our eyes. Light, older still, from stars beyond our capacity for observation, streaking across the void. An expanding edge, beyond which defies imagination, stretching further and further from the 13.4 billion-lightyears away center of it all. Imagine the entire universe is one cell of one…

  • Foolish Notions: a #tankaprose (4/1/23)

    4/1/23: April musings A submission due, and yet an unmet requirement remains. A text asking for an ETA is left unanswered. An overcast sky, promising a persistent drizzle, transforms into a cloudless one. Why must these contradictions of common sense fester on this first of April? what elsecan one expect fromApril Fool’s daya clawless cat…

  • “glistening…” a #tanka (3/29/23)

    3/29/23: unprompted glistening off of a neigbhor’s home an afternoon glow the sudden appearance of blue sky #tanka #micropoetry #poetry

  • My Daily #Haiku (3/29/23)

    3/29/23: magician bowing boughs… a magician performs at a campfire #haiku #micropoetry #poetry