Frank J. Tassone

Category: haiku community

  • #Haikai Challenge #195-197 (Trifecta) #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka #haiga #renga

    I hope you refreshed yourselves, haijin! Congratulations to the last challenge’s contributors: Haikai Challenge Participants 1. Eugenia2. Li/Lisa in W MI USA 3. Jules4. Goutam Dutta 5. Revived Writer6. Ken Gierke / rivrvlogr Powered by… Mister Linky’s Magical Widgets. Ultreya! I stumbled through a busy June. Here we are, three weeks since the last #Haikai…

  • rain-silence

    Originally posted on Poems From Oostburg, Wisconsin: Photo by Karl – July 2020 rain-silencehow well dayliliesand hosta grow Photo by Karl – July 2019 rain-silenceand June reflectionswork on a new book And he shall be like a tree?planted by the rivers of water,that bringeth forth his fruit in his season;his leaf also shall not wither;and…

  • Today’s Haiku (June 26, 2021)

    Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 百の手が挙がりて神輿宙に舞ふ　　　田島和生 hyaku no te ga agarite mikoshi chû ni mau ??????????? a hundred hands up ??????????? festival “mikoshi” ??????????? dance in the air ??????????????????????????????????????????????? Kazuo Tajima from Haiku-kai (Haiku World), July 2017 Issue, Bungaku No Mori, Tokyo Fay’s Note:  “mikoshi” (literal translation:  God’s palanquin) is…

  • 2502

    Originally posted on Cat Nap Revue: she slams doorsand windows, toomidnight wind

  • Nightmares like this: a #Tankaprose

    A respectable woman, sipping tea with others women of her station, exchanging chuckles and pleasantries. No one remarked when she excuses herself from their company after a certain server passed by. She passes through the crowded chamber, down the labyrinthine corridors of the grand vessal, until she comes to a small, cramped chamber. A brief…

  • Originally posted on elancharan gunasekaran: night’s rain the full moon readies her body

  • Dr. Proffitt Levin’s “Deers gaze in the mist…”

    Deers graze in the mist Hiding forlorn refugees Trying to be free #Haiku Happenings #5: Dr. Roberta Proffitt Levin’s latest haiku!

  • Frameless Sky, 2021

    Originally posted on My Inner Voice: reconciliation we forgetwho is who in the skythere is a perfect harmonyamong stars Also added in the sneak preview of Frameless Sky https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzsi2keaJcs&t=392s ————- cascading waterfallfrom the creviceof an old rock ?I reach the pointof forgiving myself?? ————- a tapestryof marigold blossomsin the gardenthe invisible handsof my mother’s love…