Frank J. Tassone

Tag: dVerse

  • Stanza del Silenzio: a #haibun

    “But you, when you pray, go into your inner room…” Mt 6:6 “Silence is the first language of God”, Saint John of the Cross once said. Perhaps that’s why sitting in silence always attraced me. From a pre-school age boy, spinning the wheels of his upside-down tricycle, to a pubescent boy, sitting cross-legged on a…

  • 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