A “photo-shopped” #haiku (5/19/19)
even an old manhas New Year’s eyes…cherry blossoms © Kobayashi Issa (Tr. David G. Lanoue) an old man’s New Year’s eyes cherry blossoms for Carpe Diem Weekend Meditation #85 Photo-shopping Haiku (2) Cherry Blossom
A Little Light Defiance
I hear your laughter, you coming darkness. I hold my tongue at your mockery of our quavering, as daylight diminishes with each passing day. I bear your taunts about how hope dwindles with your growing deluge. Because the joke is on you. I light one candle, and you […]
A Vernal bow
The first daffodil of the season bows its blossom like a subject before her sovereign. sunlight through clouds how long until cherry blossoms For Carpe Diem #1402 Daffodils (one-bun)
A #Troika #Quadrilla: Hawk-haunted “Rook-Delighting Heaven”
I take on not one, not two, but three challenges at once with a form I’ve never used before! For Carpe Diem’s Weekend Meditation 5, ancient warriors between battle and peace writing haiku © Chèvrefeuille falling to the ground a flower closer to the root bidding farewell © […]
#Free-style Friday #2…on regrets…#haibun #haiku
Spring Party, Autumn Post His son’s face is covered in a greenish-yellow goo! Chris holds his daughter, showing an “aw shucks” grin. I stare at his Facebook photo. The last time he called, I knelt on a sub floor, laying $4.00/tile Italian Porcelain with Jeff. He and I […]
Frank J. Tassone 