Frank J. Tassone

Category: haiku community

  • Barton Orchard Experience: an .@ImageCurve #haibun

    A smooth trip to Barton Orchard in Poughquag, NY—until the last 2 miles. A long, stop-and-go line of traffic behind an inspecting sheriff at a T-junction stalls our progress before our last turn. Summer-esque heat white-knuckling the wheel Paul lumbers more than walks. Like one of the Dwarves from the film “the Hobbit.” Mira recognizes…

  • World Haiku Series 2019 (185) Haiku by Vania Stefanova

    Originally posted on Akita International Haiku Network: World Haiku Series 2019 (185) Haiku by Vania Stefanova ? the light between two pines— a swing Sketchbook, 2012   光 2本の松の間に スイング ? wind— in the popcorn a cherry petal ? Asahi Haikuist Network, 2011 ? 風 ポップコーンに 桜の花びら ? rustle in the grasses— closer to my…

  • Dave Read Poetry

    #Haiku Happenings #8: Dave Read’s latest #tanka appears in Hedgerow! a gust of wind billows the curtains — I inhale  a full breath  of spring  *** hedgerow 131 Dave Read Poetry

  • Haikai Challenge #152: katydid (kirigirisu) — Katydid serenade

    Originally posted on Tao-Talk: Grass-coated crickets serenade late August’s moon – silver ears listen. https://youtu.be/TjM9tZE_bDg ? image link here Frank J. Tassone is the host of Haikai Challenge.  Frank says: This week, write the haikai poem of your choice (haiku, senryu, haibun, tanka, haiga, renga, etc.) that alludes to the katydid (kirigirisu).

  • “lone grasshopper…” a #tanka (8/21/20)

    8/21/20: prompt-free lone grasshopper amidst this summer breeze a delayed repair and a snake’s intrusion is a great time for Spanish wine #tanka#micropoetry#poetry

  • Daily Haiku: Aug. 21, 2020

    Originally posted on Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog: cemetery garden the endless sleep of leaves   by Eufemia Griffo  (Italy) Blithe Spirit, Vol. 28, No. 4, December 2018

  • Haiku Change of Season

    Originally posted on Miriam's Well: Poetry, Land Art, and Beyond: acorns dive bombing our cars– ping! I was e-mailing my sister in Boston. It’s hot here, cooler there. I said: “say hi to your acorns” as she lives among oaks. She wrote me back the words that became the first two lines here. I capped…

  • gogyohka for a stormy evening

    Originally posted on Jane Dougherty Writes: this darkness full of rain that clatters in the chimney and washes over roof tiles seeping through cracks and pooling on the floor is the summer’s end   the end of dusty death of grass and the bees wandering hungry migrations started the sky emptying of feathers filling with…