Frank J. Tassone

Tag: AprPad2022

  • Bird song sonata

    Before sunrise. Before even the break of day. The first robin begins the overture. Others soon carry the melody. Soon, the sound of their choral arrangement shakes away the last hope of sleeping in. Before sunset. Before even the hint of twilight. The last robin refrains the coda. The harmonies have ended. Only the last…

  • “horses and bears…” a #tanka (4/25/22)

    4/22/22: horses; 4/25/21: bear horses and bears can I bear the thought of horses and bears the wonder of a mind gone wild with thoughts #tanka#micropoetry#poetry#napowrimo2022#glopowrimo2022#npm2022

  • My Daily #Haiku (4/22/21; 4/25/22)

    4/21/22: Lake; 4/25/22: winter chill sudden cold spell a flock of geese fly over Pine Meadow Lake #haiku#micropoetry#poetry#napowrimo2022#glopowrimo2022#npm2022

  • Mythic Menagerie

    The last traces of blue sky shrink away. A mass of moist gray swells in its place. Still, the budding maple leaves on the trees across the street reflect the golden hue of setting sun. For a moment. across this mad inscape purple tigers for dVerse Poets’ Poetics: Naming the Rose (pubtended by Merril Smith).…

  • We chalk affecionados… a #Quadrille

    Even at the worst… scratching of fingernails grating my spine the inspiration again and again Can there ever be enough… Effervescence just one wet wipe away that talcum feel on the fingers In the final analysis, it boils down… too many memories not to

  • “the barking…” a #tanka (4/18/22)

    4/18/22: unprompted the barking of a golden retriever I never had how can so many good times all be imagined? #tanka#micropoetry#poetry#napowrimo2022#glopowrimo2022#NPM2022

  • Patience

    The frozen, dry earth slowly thaws and quickens in the gathering heat of spring. The pandemics that ravage the world slowly contract until the last cases become memory. The defeaning explosions of missle strikes and shell fire, the rumble of collapsing apartments and hospitals, the screams and cries of civilians: even these fall away to…

  • “is there…” a #tanka (4/15/22)

    4/9/22: refuge; 4/15/22: nightmare is there“a balm in Gilead?”a refugefrom the nightmareof this breaking world? #tanka #micropoetry #poetry #napowrimo2022 #glopowrimo2022 #NPM2022