Frank J. Tassone

Tag: dVerse

  • Our Esoteric Toil: A #quadrille #haibun

      She gathers dandelions for a new herbal tea. While I muddle words, photographs, and impressions to craft an epiphany among the ephemora.   The last robins and chicadees could care less. Their evening song carries on.   a clouded sunset among the dogwood bloom a woodpecker     for dVerse Poets Quadrille #56– Muddle,…

  • #ThrowdownThursday (5/3/18): Dryness… my latest #Haibun on .@ImageCurve

    Dust falls through my fingers. I reach down and grab another handful. Sage and withered birch are all that break up the ashen plain. There should be light, but too many thunderclouds blot out the sun. another rumble not a drop falls from the midnight black sky first published in Image Curve, May 3, 2018…

  • #Tanka Tuesday (for a #WaybackWednesday) 5/2/18: Witness a Wild Thing

     [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons   The Wild has always called me. Out of the depths of a child’s imagination came marching a parade of derivative characters. Then the moments of rapt attention: a tricyle turned upside down:   I turned over my rusty red tricycle in the mud room. Then I spun the wheels.…

  • Take a walk

      Mira and I walk at Kakiat Park. The rain-swollen Mahwah River cascades under the bridge. It foams the rocky bank where a lone fisherman fishes. We turn onto the blue trail toward the tributary feeding the river. Or is it the river? The cold ground doesn’t mud our shoes like last time. We’re not…

  • Gather Foolish Minds: A #Quadrille #haibun

      Gather, foolish minds! Never mind the fool saying, “Mind over matter. I don’t mind, so you don’t matter.”   Gather, you poets! Enscribe in fresh language that madness we call wisdom.   So gathered, we foolish minds shame the wise!     fired feast our dionesian wine awaits     for dVerse Poets Quadrille…

  • My Daily #Haiku #3

    courtesy of Fay Collins     Thanksgiving Day– A murder of crows Takes flight     My second haiku for EarthRise Haiku Collaborative 2018  from my haibun “Conflicted Expectations”, Contemporary Haibun Online, October 2013; V. 8, N. 3   for dVerse Poets’ Tuesday Poetics–Fay Colins. Sarah’s inaugural pubtend! Real Toads’ Tuesday Platform–April Style #GloPoWriMo2018 / #NaPoWriMo2018  17/30…

  • A Chijitsu Manhunt

    Photo by Roman Pavluv on Unsplash   The sun slips beneath the Ramapo Mountains. The long red of a sailor’s delight sky spreads out like opening hands. A long spring day lingers on into a delightful twilight. This is when the neigborhood kids begin their game of manhunt.   Frankie joins Zach, Alli and James on Alli’s driveway.…

  • A Haikai Ars Poetica

      The tai chi windchime’s melody plays without ceasing. Spindly, naked branches atop towering locus trees sway. Grasshoppers chirp in a choral counterpoint to the bass drone of the Friday evening rush-hour. Shrivelled, potted daffidils bathe in the late afternoon sun. A hawk soars in a tight circle high above the tallest Locus. The warmest…