Frank J. Tassone

Tag: dVerse

  • A Walk at Nyack Beach: An .@ImageCurve #haibun

    The Hudson surges against the black boulders of the Nyack Beach shoreline. A woosh of water on stone is a chant in rhythm to the river’s tide. Frankie bikes around a bend in the dirt-and-granular track. We follow on foot, content to be left behind for a time. Hook MountainCasts a wide shadowWind caressing waves…

  • A Commemorative Conflict: a #haibun for #dversepoets

    Their grave rests in Maryrest Cemetary. I haven’t visited in a while–never mind how long. Why do I need to see their stone to remember them? All I have to do is mow the lawn, and Dad offers me his unsolicited advise on where to plant peach trees. All I need to do is sit…

  • A Pubtending Premier Alert! #dversepoets #haibun #feature

    I’m honored to premier my inaugural post, Haibun Monday: Memorial, today over at dVerse Poets Pub! The pub opens in less than two hours, at 3PM EST. Come join us! Hope to see you there! Memorial lain for the fallen a new wreath

  • A Quart-milk Container Bird Enthusiast

    It is a pretty bird. An Arts and Crafts instructor at Woodland camp showed us how to make them out of quart-milk containers. She dips papier mache wrapping into different colored dyes to make the foliage. Then she wraps the papier mache around the container. She walks around the paint-splattered tables in the cavernous, beige-painted…

  • Water’s Canticle

    Do you wonder about me? How I nourish life in one hand and strip it away with the other? How I descend to the lowest places even the most bodhivassatic of you fail to go? How I ascend to the heights that once only the gods dwelt? How do I do it? I yield, and…

  • The Vanity of Our Theorizing

    I read Robert Pirsig’s Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. I shuddered when Phaedrus articulated his theory of “quality,” only to experience a breakdown when he realizes that he simply rediscovered Laoxi’s insight–codified in the Tao Te Ching some 500 years before the birth of Christ: The way you can go isn’t the real…

  • Get Up: a #Quadrille #Haibun

    Yes, I’ve fallen. But I can get up. A thousand, thousand times I’ve kissed the ground. A thousand, thousand and one I’ve kissed the sky. I’m only a breath away from rising again. all of the years since “Eye of the tiger” cloud-piercing sun for dVerse Poets’ Quadrille #79 (pubtended by De Jackson, where she…

  • Special Announcement (5/5/19)!

    I am honored to announce that I have joined the team at dVerse Poets Pub! Thank you, Bjorn, for your invitation, Grace, for your invaluable support during my transition, and the entire d’Verse Team for their warm welcome! I hope to premier on the May 27th Haibun Monday. I leave you with my dVerse bio:…