Frank J. Tassone

Tag: haibun

  • Triduum: a #Tanaga-prose #haibun

    courtesy of the National Catholic Register   Holy Thursday. My intention to attend mass collides with our exhaustion. Mira and I both have not slept well the past two nights–she worse off than me. A simple marinara penne with tilapia and shrimp, a bountiful glass of burgundy or three, and our inevitable crash on the…

  • #Throwdown Thursday (3/29/18): my latest #haibun “A Montebello School Commencement” is up on .@ImageCurve

    A Montebello School Commencement     Frankie and I are home. He’ll soon put on a light-green, button-down collared shirt, a pair of Khakis and dockers. We’ll drop him off at the middle school and take our seats in the auditorium. For his promotion ceremony. I blinked, and my son turned eleven and graduated elementary…

  • #Wayback Wednesday (3/28/18): Dreaming Dad from Haibun Today

    Dreaming Dad You come with us to a picnic ground. Scattered cottonball clouds float across a blue summer sky. Lush, green grass feels soft under our feet. Maple and birch trees enclose the area. We sit at a weathered picnic table splintering with age. You wear your cream short-sleeve shirt, khaki shorts and those worn,…

  • Spring Suite: an .@ImageCurve #haibun collection

      Prologue   Spring morning a moment of grace in the sun winter-hardened soil yields the season’s first chutes     Spring Suite, Part I: At the NJ Botanical Gardens     The twin rows of apple trees define a path down the center of Skyland Manor’s Great Lawn. They won’t blossom until May. Many…

  • A Waning Hope: A #quadrille #haibun

    Courtesy CBS News   Savanna sunset the last breath of the last male white rhino   An aging female’s egg awaits sperm preserved from the last male. A species’ fate rests in the hands of such uncertain science.   Of such waning hope.   starlight playing God to overcome playing God   for dVerse Poets…

  • #Napowrimo2018 cometh…a #Senryu Saturday (3/24/18) #haibun announcement

      April is National Poetry Month. National Poetry Writing Month, or NaPoWriMo, has become a way poets and poet bloggers celebrate it. I wrote my first 30 in 30 last year, and I will do so again this year. As if the madness of #nahaiwrimo2018 wasn’t enough, right? Stay tuned…the fun begins Easter Sunday. Which…

  • #Haikai Challenge #26 (3/24/18): Triduum #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka #haiga #renga

    Master of the Housebook [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons   It’s Spring at last, haijin! At least for now. The last nor’easter of the season came and went. The last snow slowly melts away. And we write on.   Congratulations to last week’s contributors:   Haikai Challenge Participants 1. Jane Dougherty 2. Ken Gierke /…

  • #Throwdown Thursday (3/22/18): A Shattering Truth

    A Shattering Truth BY FRANK J. TASSONE · 22ND MARCH 2018   You and Dad tried to conceive for twelve years before you decided to adopt. You told me that story often enough: how I grabbed your pinky when you visited candidate babies, and you knew I was the one. But what happened when Robert was born? He…