Frank J. Tassone

Tag: haibun

  • 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…

  • #Wayback Wednesday (3/21/18): Flea Market…an .@ImageCurve #haibun

    Flea Market BY FRANK J. TASSONE · 20TH NOVEMBER 2014 Haibun Poem   A green mountain coffee sign stands in the aisle. Cotton T-shirts and three-quarter shirts with band and sports regalia logos hang on wracks or rest folded on tables inside many booths. Others held piles of DVDs and paperbacks. Then we find the statues. Sts. Michael,…

  • A Defiant Embrace of Spring : a #Tanka Tuesday #tankaprose

    The Weather Channel   vernal bliss do not go gentle into this new spring! rage, rage against the living of winter!   So the equinox comes. Spring, for we living north of the equator. Fall, for those dwelling south of it. The inauguration of a temperate season, regardless of hemisphere, commences today. Nevertheless, Nor’easter Toby…

  • A Haijin’s Tale: a #haibun for #dversepoets

    Photo by Aaron Burden on Unsplash   I remember the wonder of reading about Zeus and his Olympians fighting the Titans in Edith Hamilton’s Mythology. I remember the delight reading about Lucy meet the Faun in Narnia in C.S. Lewis’ The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. I remember the fascination of reading about Bilbo free the dwarves…

  • #Haikai Challenge #25 (3/17/18): (Spring) Equinox (higan) #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka #haiga #renga

      All dug out, haijin? Clearly, many of you enjoyed frolicking in the snow. Here are your contributions!   Haikai Challenge Participants  1. Pat R 2. Jane Dougherty 3. KanzenToni 4. KanzenToni 5. Victoria Slotto 6. Ken Gierke / rivrvlogr 7. Jules 8. Reena Saxena 9. Jane Dougherty 10. Sue Vincent 11. Revived Writer 12.…