Frank J. Tassone

Tag: dVerse

  • Human Foibles: A #TankaTuesday (8/28/18) #tankaprose #2

      Bad news kicks his shoes off on a supersonic flight. He sips champagne in business class and laughs his ass off. “They still don’t get it,” he mutters aloud to no one, “Practice makes progress, but the wankers won’t even raise their arses to fart!”   Meanwhile, the smoke spews more carbon into the…

  • “…for Sister Earth, our Mother…” : a #TankaTuesday (8/28/18) #quadrille #writephoto #tankaprose

      She clasps the afternoon sunlight in her raised arms. Then asks, “If you will not care for the earth, who will?”   One deep breath: the journey begins.   Dryad dream a shift in mind to resist the exploitation see the desolation and say, “no more!”     for dVerse Poets’ Quadrille #63 – Feel…

  • A Cowardly Lion’s Soliloquy

      The world is a beautiful place…when you have courage. When you don’t…not so much.   I would know. I balled like a baby when Dorothy smacked me right in the kisser. Imagine! A King of the Jungle sopping the ground with his own sobs. Those were days when I saw no beauty anywhere. I…

  • Gemini Portraits: a solo #renga

      gathered clouds a poem as lovely as  a summer storm Why we won’t commune across our abyss Across our abyss why we won’t commune a summer storm a poem as lovely as clouds gathered         for dVerse Poets Pub Meeting the Bar — Reverse Poetry (pubtended by Frank Hubeny)   a second…

  • The Vintage Box Experience

    Photo by Kyle Loftus on Unsplash     They say, “Think outside the box.”   They haven’t had a truly good wine from a box.   Yes, it lacks bourgie bragging rights. But find a better bargain: a volume of good red for a great price.   another glass she wonders why we need another     for…

  • A Gratitude Announcement (8/13/18)

      I guest-hosted dVerse Poets Pub’s Haibun Monday last week. What an exhilerating experience! Thank you, Grace, for the invitation; everyone on the dVerse team, for your hard work keeping the pub open, and all of the poets that participated!   emerging sun celebrating the language we call poetry      

  • The Message of Hiroshima Day

    Hiroshima Peace Memorial Ceremony & Peace Message Lantern Floating Ceremony   I watched the Gozilla movies the day after Thanksgiving when I was growing up. The inconic road, the atomic fire, the wanton destruction of Tokyo or other monster: I lapped it all up.   Caught up in my joy, I never understood then what…

  • Everyday Duplicity: a #ThrowdownThursday (8/2/18) #Tanka

        cicada song … the moments we take for granted How many shadows can we hide within?     for dVerse Poets’ MTB: Punctuation and enjambment in poetry (pubtended by Bjorn) and my own #Haikai Challenge #44 (7/28/18): Cicada (Semi) #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka #haiga #renga