Frank J. Tassone

Tag: dVerse

  • Seeing Broadway

    Is it the Broadway we want to see? Bustling theaters, sidewalks filled with tourists that line up with their pre-purchased tickets, the costumed characters harassing visitors for a photo. Is it the Broadway we see? Empty streets and sidewalks, darkened theaters, the cavernous echo of a once bustling midtown. Is this the Broadway we will…

  • #Haikai Poetry Alert: MTB: 5-Line Japanese Poetic Forms

    Originally posted on dVerse: Stock Photo: Takebayashi of Kyoto Welcome to DVerse, Poets! I am Frank Tassone, your host for today’s Meet the Bar, where we delve into poetic craft. This month is National Tanka Month, or #NaTankaMo. In honor of this celebration of tanka, I would like to focus on three of the 5-line…

  • “sunlit ripples…” a #tanka (5/21/20)

    sunlit ripples as the current continues through the bend all the times I fought when I could have flowed #tanka #micropoetry #poetry I’m hosting MTB today at dVerse Poets, where we explore 5-line Japanese Poetic Forms. The pub is open! Come join us!

  • Predation: a #Quadrille #TankaProse

    When did you imagine that the world revolved around you? Did it take a stray strand of rogue gene to prove otherwise? How utterly predictable of you! a glimpse of pitiable reptillian indifference … we can only blame ourselves for the fix that we’re in for Colleen’s 2020 Weekly #Tanka Tuesday #Poetry Challenge No. 178…

  • Completing the Chore: a .@ImageCurve #haibun

    The dishwasher hums, and the whooshing of its water drowns out the crickets. I eat my oatmeal out of Frankie’s Frosted Flakes bowl: not another clean one remains. warm aftertasteempty pill containersbeside bottles first published in Image Curve, May 14, 2020 UPDATE: for dVerse Poets’ OpenLinkNight #267 (pubtended by Grace) The Pub is open! Come…

  • An Encore of “This #Corona: a Day 10 #NaPoWriMo2020 / #GloPoWriMo2020 #Hay(nu)ku #sonnet”

    sunlight … passing clouds and sudden flurries this Good Friday only streaming Stations quarantine living our novam viam crucis folly those people slighting this #Corona this “Mask of the Red Death“

  • “still water…” a #tanka (5/5/20)

    still water before the gentlest caress of the wind learning accompaniment from listening to silence for dVerse Poets’ Poetics – Solitude (pubtended by Bjorn) The pub is open! Come join us! and Colleen’s 2020 Weekly #Tanka Tuesday #Poetry Challenge No. 176, #Poet’sChoice

  • Innocent Amusement: a #Quadrille – #Haibun

    He would play with me for hours. Stretch me into all kind of shapes. Twist and turn me one way, then another. When he was done, he’d mold me two-handed, and pour me back into my egg. silly putty so many years since childhood for dVerse Poets’ Quadrille Monday -Lighten up a bit! (pubtended by lillian)…