Frank J. Tassone

Tag: haibun

  • #Haikai Challenge #33 (5/12/18): Spring Rain (harusame)/Autumn Rain (aki no ame) #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka #haiga #renga

      Hello, haijin! You took time to hear the birds twitter! Congratulations to all contributors:   Haikai Challenge Participants  1. Ken Gierke / rivrvlogr 2. Dwight L. Roth 3. Jules 4. Jane Dougherty 5. Linda Lee Lyberg 6. Zander 7. Xenia Tran 8. Jules #2 9. Revived Writer 10. Janice (Ontheland) 11. Caitlin 12. Revived…

  • Osiarian Relics: A #FreestyleFriday (5/11/18) #writephoto #haibun

        See where standing stones fell. Witness the last embrace of Earth by two fallen Tuatha De Danann. Shed your tears on their cold granite corpses, sheltered by some cosp of oak and maple. Nothing more can you hope to do for them, you sons and daughters of Celts. Your ancestors hungered for new…

  • Essential

    ALFRED PASIEKA/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/GETTY IMAGES   “In the beginning was the word…”   Logos. The essence of consciousness, the embodied will of creative Love, from which the universe began with a Big Bang. An utterance of voice so tender and loving that potential gave birth to actual. A voice so awesomely heartbreaking, and heard now…

  • #ThrowdownThursday (5/10/18): Another Mother’s Day?… my latest .@ImageCurve #haibun

    Another Mother’s Day?     Mom washed, curled, brushed and hairsprayed. Then she applied makeup and lipstick. For the first time in weeks, she looks like she always does when she goes out in public. She loses her breath rising from one chair and moving to another, despite the pulse-births of oxygen from her portable…

  • Aqua: A Natural History

    By Arturo Mann (User:Feralaas) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons   I was born from the remnants of stars. The hydrogen that fuels their fires twice forms me, along with the oxygen through which all energy finds release. So abundantly have I grown from that first molecule that I cover two-thirds of the earth. And I…

  • An Art of Unlearning: A #TankaTuesday (5/8/18) #TankaProse

    Photo by Thought Catalog on Unsplash   a starlit sky residing in fantasy at my peril I let go of my cravings to embrace this passing wind   I learn to unlearn each day. Unlearn the paralyzing fear of others’ judgement. Unlearn the urge to rail against every inconvenience I encounter. Unlearn the way I bend under the…

  • 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,…

  • #Haikai Challenge #32 (5/5/18): twittering (saezuri,) #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka #haiga #renga

    Photo by Ryk Naves on Unsplash   Happy Cinco De Mayo, haijin! And congratulations to those of you that completed thirty poems in thirty days for April!   We entered May with a flurry of prompts, and you offered a diversity of responses. Our hat’s off to this week’s contributors:   Haikai Challenge Participants  1. Jane Dougherty 2.…