Frank J. Tassone

Tag: haibun

  • Coyote monologues Narcissus: a #TankaProse

      Don’t look at me like that! Geesh! The first time you tear your eyes away from that pond in forever, and it’s to give me an attitude?   Look, I’m a culture hero. I pulled a Prometheus, and stole fire from the sun for humanity. I practically raised the Crow myself, and I even…

  • #Haikai Challenge #30 (4/21/18): Earth… #Haiku #Senryu #Haibun #Tanka #Haiga #Renga

    No sooner did we celebrate warmth than another cold spell enveloped the Northeast! Nevertheless, Haijin, you bore witness to the inevitable turn toward spring (at least in the northern hemisphere). Congratulations to last week’s contributors:   Haikai Challenge Participants  1. Ken Gierke / rivrvlogr 2. lynn__ 3. Dwight L. Roth 4. Jules 5. Jane Dougherty…

  • Rebel Treatment: a #FreestyleFriday #sonnet #haibun

    photo by michael baumann, flickr     starlight listening to the frogs croaking   Revolutionary Hudson river The Dutch named your greatest width Tappan Zee. Your waters ever a generous giver, bearing fish and trade goods down to the sea. How many shots Red Coats and Patriots trade along your vast and everstretching shore? How many…

  • These Triumphs

    The echo of applause from their standing ovation after his first speech ever. crescent moon MC’ing the Court of Honor with honor

  • #Throwback Thursday (4/19/18): That Swing…an .@ImageCurve #haibun

    That Swing I pull the black metal bars of that swing. The ground swings to the sky swings to the ground. Over and over again. Fog horn    wind-tossed waves at Kingsland Point   first published in Image Curve, April 19, 2018 more by FRANK J. TASSONE photo by Simon Schmitt   for dVerse OLN #218,…

  • Here. Now. Just This. A #haibun in the moment

    Photo by Daniel Weiss on Unsplash   One robin sings in spite of nightfall. A distant hum of some appliance drones outside. The stairs creak under Mira’s footsteps. The ledge of the Wall-unit desk has fewer chakas on them. My own tired eyes and enshadowed crows’ feet gaze at me from the mirror enclosed by the unit. A…

  • A Chijitsu Manhunt

    Photo by Roman Pavluv on Unsplash   The sun slips beneath the Ramapo Mountains. The long red of a sailor’s delight sky spreads out like opening hands. A long spring day lingers on into a delightful twilight. This is when the neigborhood kids begin their game of manhunt.   Frankie joins Zach, Alli and James on Alli’s driveway.…

  • Pathfinding Perils: A #writephoto #haibun

      So many footsteps to follow. So little time before the tide comes in. Another path of footprints: Are they the ones? What about the footprints I leave? Who will follow those?   the difference between knowing and walking the path ebb tide     for Susan’s Thursday photo prompt: Footprints #writephoto     #GloPoWriMo2018 /…