Frank J. Tassone

Tag: haibun

  • #Haikai Challenge #36 (6/2/18): Peony (botan) #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka #haiga #renga

    A Peony outside my den window   Thank you for honoring our fallen veterans, haijin! Special gratitude to last week’s contributors:   Haikai Challenge Participants  1. Ken Gierke / rivrvlogr 2. Dwight L. Roth 3. Jules 4. Zander 5. Jules #2 6. Linda Lee Lyberg 7. Jane Dougherty 8. Jules #3 9. Revived Writer Powered…

  • End of the Day: A #writephoto #FreestyleFriday #haibun

      I can sip my burgundy and gaze at the last sunset. Let the impending thunderclouds gather. Let their first rumbles chill the hearts of others. I laugh from my lawn chair, enjoying the show as I savor every oak overtone of my reliable box wine serving.   If I’ve ridden the dragon as far…

  • First Sleepover: a #ThrowdownThursday .@ImageCurve #haibun

    Frankie hugs us tightly. As he lets go, his eyes hold back a hint of tears, the ones that betray the hesitancy we all share. “Ok. Goodbye,” he says. He and his friend Stephan get in a silver SUV. Nora, the boy’s mother, finishes adjusting bags in the bay. As the SUV pulls away, I…

  • Humble Truths: a #TankaTuesday (on a Wednesday) #TankaProse

        fluttering leaves in a cool afternoon breeze a neighbor’s drumming such a happy fantasia of how things could have been   The truth is a six-mile-plus hike along the Doodletown Bridal Path in Bear Mountain State Park on Memorial Day–the same day as my late father’s birthday. The truth is the slow opening…

  • Deliverance In The Dark: an .@ImageCurve #haibun

      Cotton sheets cling to my skin like a burial shroud. Memories of Mom arise. Her pain-soaked blue eyes, looking out from a frustration-worn face, pulsing oxygen through nasal tubes insufficient for her to rise from bed. Speculations emerge. Students laugh away the opportunities I offer. Networks with whom I negotiate ignore my recommendations. A…

  • #Haikai Challenge #35 (5/26/18): Memorial Day #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka #haiga #renga

    courtesy of The Old Farmers Alamanc   Are we warm enough yet, haijin? The prelude to summer struck this weekend in New York, where the current temperature is in the mid-eighties! You withstood the heat and came through with your haikai!   Congratulations to last week’s contributors:   Haikai Challenge Participants  1. Ken Gierke /…

  • Sudden Downpour: A #writephoto #quadrille #haibun

      The rain fell unexpectedly. The tumultuous gray had so quickly gathered that we had no time to turn back. A welcoming row of entwining trees offered us a welcome shelter. We rested our bikes and waited.   emerging sun the flanders country ride soon resumes     for dVerse Poets’ Quadrille #57 – Don’t…

  • I, Cuchulainn

    By Stephen Reid (Eleanor Hull, The Boys’ Cuchulain) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons   I, tied to a post, await them, my enemies who’ve killed me at last. I’ll stand my ground against them to the end. Not much longer, now. My blood-stained blade, heavy in my hand one last time. My torn tunic saturated…