Frank J. Tassone

Tag: haibun

  • #Haikai Challenge #52 (9/22/18): harvest #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka #haiga #renga

      How was the stargazing, haijin? Many of you savored the stars!   Congratulations to last week’s contributors:   Haikai Challenge Participants 1. Ken Gierke / rivrvlogr 2. Dwight L. Roth 3. The Dark Netizen 4. Jules @ Strands 5. Revived Writer 6. Jules @ Strands #2 7. lynn__ 8. Helene Vaillant 9. Deepa 10.…

  • Seen and Unseen Apple Trees: A #TBT #haibun featuring my latest from .@ImageCurve

    I see the apple tree. It’s dark-gray and brown, ridged bark, with Y-shaped branches splitting upward like outstretched arms from its knotted trunk. Its leaves fill every branch. The 2 x 4 Dad and I nailed onto the trunk below the split, so Frankie could plant his foot to climb it. I see him in…

  • Oedipal Complex

    Attic cup: Oedipus and the Sphinx Oedipus and the Sphinx, interior of an Attic red-figured kylix (cup or drinking vessel), c. 470 BCE; in the Gregorian Etruscan Museum, the Vatican Museums, Rome. Album/Oronoz/SuperStock     How did you miss the signs, Oedipus? You, for whom the riddle of the Sphinx held no fear?   How did you overlook the evidence that…

  • Tai Chi Logos: A #TankaTuesday #TankaProse (9/18/18)

      sunrise the potency, the power of the tree of life listening to the word everlasting   One more sunrise. One more bright ray to shatter the predawn darkness. One more ascent breaching the horizon. One more.   One more sunset. One last ray before the coming twilight. One descent like a bowing courtier before…

  • Declination of the Circus

      The spotlights shattered the darkness inside Madison Square Garden. The center ring bathed in sudden light illuminated the cacaphony of clowns, trapize artists, animals and all of the fascination that Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus could offer a child in the late seventies. I marveled at every act, spellbound by spectacle.  …

  • A Spectral Remnant: A #writephoto #haibun

      The mists part to reveal the ruin again. Roofless; empty arches once filled with stainglass; choked by the encroaching trees and consumed by the downy grasses of the Moors.   What transpired here?   Did banished queens live out their exiles here? Did matrons seek shelter from loveless marriages gone horribly wrong? Or was…

  • #Haikai Challenge #51 (9/15/18): Milky Way (amanogawa) #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka #haiga #renga

      Did you enjoy the spring/Autumn Wind, haijin? I hope you’re enjoying a sweet year!   Congratulations to last week’s contributors!   Haikai Challenge Participants  1. Dwight L. Roth 2. Jules @ Strands 3. Merril D. Smith 4. Ken Gierke / rivrvlogr 5. H�l�ne Vaillant 6. Pat R 7. Deborah Gomez 8. Suzanne 9. Revived…

  • #Performance Alert (9/15/18)

    I intend to perform. How about you? Come for the poetry; stay for the love. Or vice versa.   UPDATE: Unfortunately, I can no longer attend tonight. Sorry for the inconvenience. Hopefully, I’ll make next month’s Open Mic. Yes, it’s a thing: Every third Saturday, Suffern Village Hall.