Frank J. Tassone

Tag: GloPoWriMo2018

  • Waiting on a Butterfly’s Wings

      Waiting for a Butterfly’s wings to return Spring.   For if their beats can call forth Tsunami’s, surely they can put a zip in the warm season’s step?   Beat on, petite monarch, beat on     a sparrow’s last chirp forecasted snow flurries a week into spring   for dVerse Poets’ Quadrille #54:…

  • #Monoku Monday (4/9/18): My Daily #Haiku #2

    no one an island new moon #haikuchallenge (island) #haiku #micropoetry #poetry #GloPoWriMo2018 #napowrimo2018

  • My Daily #Haiku (4/9/18)

    4/9/18: pilgrimage sparrows in flight Camino de Santiago in our future #haiku #micropoetry #poetry #GloPoWriMo2018 #NaPoWriMo2018 9/30

  • My Daily #Haiku (4/8/2018)

    4/8/18: status   A Sunday reprieve from checking status updates first blossoms   #haiku #micropoetry #poetry #GloPoWriMo2018 / #NaPoWriMo2018 8/30

  • The Death Knell of Columbus

      The women wear suits. We file into the auditorium for our December Professional Development. Our Principal, Lisa, stands at the front. “Our agenda has changed. Please let me introduce our superintendent…” I shudder. Superintendents never come to schools anymore. Except to deliver bad news. The petite Latina woman with the hint of middle-age weight…

  • #Senryu Saturday (4/7/18): My Daily #Haiku #2

    Saturday night– sleeping in the bed I made   #haikuchallenge (made) #haiku #senryu #micropoetry #poetry  

  • A Complementary Conversation

      I am the lost one. You venture across your own ways, while I stumble in the dark. How will I know where to walk if you leave me alone? You have always left me alone. Here I am, crying dry tears and screaming in silence. Where are you? Why do you abandon me?  …

  • #Haikai Challenge #28 (4/7/18): first [cherry] blossoms (hatsu hana)…#haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka #haiga #renga

      The Spring and Winter continue to dual in the Northeastern United States, haijin! Snow fell Thursday morning and melted away by Thursday afternoon. Nevertheless, the cold fights a rearguard action against the march of warmth.   Congratulations to last week’s contributors:   Haikai Challenge Participants  1. Jane Dougherty 2. Jules 3. Xenia Tran 4.…