Frank J. Tassone

Tag: dVerse

  • Spring Suite: an .@ImageCurve #haibun collection

      Prologue   Spring morning a moment of grace in the sun winter-hardened soil yields the season’s first chutes     Spring Suite, Part I: At the NJ Botanical Gardens     The twin rows of apple trees define a path down the center of Skyland Manor’s Great Lawn. They won’t blossom until May. Many…

  • A Waning Hope: A #quadrille #haibun

    Courtesy CBS News   Savanna sunset the last breath of the last male white rhino   An aging female’s egg awaits sperm preserved from the last male. A species’ fate rests in the hands of such uncertain science.   Of such waning hope.   starlight playing God to overcome playing God   for dVerse Poets…

  • #Throwdown Thursday (3/22/18): A Shattering Truth

    A Shattering Truth BY FRANK J. TASSONE · 22ND MARCH 2018   You and Dad tried to conceive for twelve years before you decided to adopt. You told me that story often enough: how I grabbed your pinky when you visited candidate babies, and you knew I was the one. But what happened when Robert was born? He…

  • A Defiant Embrace of Spring : a #Tanka Tuesday #tankaprose

    The Weather Channel   vernal bliss do not go gentle into this new spring! rage, rage against the living of winter!   So the equinox comes. Spring, for we living north of the equator. Fall, for those dwelling south of it. The inauguration of a temperate season, regardless of hemisphere, commences today. Nevertheless, Nor’easter Toby…

  • A Haijin’s Tale: a #haibun for #dversepoets

    Photo by Aaron Burden on Unsplash   I remember the wonder of reading about Zeus and his Olympians fighting the Titans in Edith Hamilton’s Mythology. I remember the delight reading about Lucy meet the Faun in Narnia in C.S. Lewis’ The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. I remember the fascination of reading about Bilbo free the dwarves…

  • A Mortal Scream Epistle: a #shadormaprose #letterpoem

    Edvard Munch [Public domain or Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons   You would not understand were you still on my side of the veil. I only hope that on your side, you do, and will forgive me for bearing witness. Just as I hope to someday forgive you.   Three AM you dare scream my…

  • Hearthfire: A #Tanka Tuesday-on-a-Wednesday #tankaprose #Quadrille

    Hearthfire     new fire enduring fresh smoke from burning verdant wood Your face in firelight as you retell your story   you familiar words, rising above the cackling flames and flying sparks   snowfall the gentle grace by which you balance fuel  this blazing hearthfire our only warmth   for: dVerse’s Quadrille #52 Let’s Fire…

  • A Love Token: a #tankaprose… #haiku #haibun #tanka

    Photo by Carlos Quintero on Unsplash   you revive all my words of love from our green moments a present you present me one bright afternoon   There they are. Every verse I ever wrote, on every card I ever gave. All typed in Times-New Roman font in a word file. You print me the file you created…