Frank J. Tassone

Tag: haibun

  • A Saint Psalmody: a #haibun for .@PoetsUnited #MidweekMotif

    A  Saint Psalmody I look to you, Francis of Assisi, and what you did when you answered the call. How your hands must have ached, holding each stone on those cold mornings. You lifted stone after stone into place, until the pile of ruins took on the image of the old Church it once was.…

  • Samhain Sorrows…a #Halloween #haibun for #dVerse…

    Samhain Sorrows Why do you mock us? With your costumed attire more suitable for the bordello than for posing as one of us. While we, breaching the veil between worlds, feel again the bitter cold and ravenous hunger we knew in life. And what feast do you prepare for us, now? Children crying out, “trick…

  • A #Haibun on Kindness…dVerse’s Haibun Monday 10/30/17…

    Soraya’s Annual I receive a call from AnaMaria. A family awaits me outside 282. I head to the office suite to meet them. Only they aren’t the family I’m expecting. I swallow, open the door and seat the three of them. Soraya’s mother holds three folded letters. The last one reads “Final Notice of Summons.”…

  • #Haikai Challenge #5 (10/28/17/): Halloween #haiku #haibun #senryu #tanka

    Thank you, Poets, for your participation in last week’s #Haikai Challenge 4: Darkness: Jilly- What Dark May Come Charley-  Troiku – Fish Crow Vivian- Cloak of Darkness qbit- Three Haiku – Darkness revivedwriter- You Make the Darkness Light   And now, the moment you all have been waiting for–this week’s #Haikai Challenge! It’s the last weekend…

  • #Free-style Friday #2…on regrets…#haibun #haiku

    Spring Party, Autumn Post His son’s face is covered in a greenish-yellow goo! Chris holds his daughter, showing an “aw shucks” grin. I stare at his Facebook photo. The last time he called, I knelt on a sub floor, laying $4.00/tile Italian Porcelain with Jeff. He and I were finishing the renovation of my kitchen.…

  • #Way-back Wednesday 10/25/17…The Journey Begins…#haibun

    The Journey Begins “A journey of a thousand miles begins with the single step,” said Lao Tzu. But he’s dead. This journey ahead frightens me to my core. Twisting crags, breakneck switchbacks and a legion of thorns and brambles lay on the path. I shudder at every letter as a riot of voices shout down…

  • #monoku Monday #2: Creak…a dVerse Poets Pub #Quadrille #Monday #haibun special

    Creak stairs under footsteps floorboards of the worn front deck the opening front door   our screams at the pale face dripping blood from red-stained fangs coming through the door   The accented “good evening” before he fills my pumpkin case   creak     feet scampering      into the night   For dVerse…

  • #Haikai Challenge 4 (10/21/17): darkness #haiku #haibun #senryu #tanka

    Congratulations to Qbit (twice!), RevivedWriter (also twice!), and Jilly for participating in last week’s challenge. On to this week’s! It’s late October. The days shorten.  So what better kigo (seasonal reference) could there be than darkness? Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to write a haikai poem that uses, or alludes to,…