Frank J. Tassone

Tag: haibun

  • #Haikai Challenge #179-181 (2/20, 2/27/, 3/6): Spring Trinity #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka #haiga #renga

    Hope you’ve warmed up, and enjoyed your New Year/ Mardi Gras celebrations, haijin! Congratulations to the last challenge’s contributors: Haikai Challenge Participants 1. Jules2. Eugenia3. Colleen Chesebro4. Li/Lisa Fox of W MI, USA 5. Jane Dougherty6. Pat7. Ruth 8. Ken Gierke / rivrvlogr 9. Revived Writer10. Tessa Dean11. Dolores Powered by… Mister Linky’s Magical Widgets.…

  • El camino a través de las nubes: a #TankaProse

    “Come.” The familiar feelings continue to arise: a dull throb in the joints; aches in the neck, back, knee; the knot in the stomach. The agitating numbness of anxiety, and its corresponding rise of triggering thoughts: “What am I missing? What if something goes wrong? What if I am…” arousal “Come.” The subtle nudge. The…

  • PSA: The Next #Haikai Challenge

    I expect to have the next #Haikai Challenge (a triple-header) out this Saturday, March 6, 2021. Expect it when you see it! rising wind the haikai we’ll soon share

  • The Path of Interior Silence: A Haibun Lenten Reflection (Encore)

    The later-afternoon sky fills with cirrus clouds again. The expected snow has not yet arrived, but my rheumatic joints inform me that it’s only a matter of time. That will mean yet another turn at the snow-thrower, gripping it tightly as it skids on ice, while it hurls fresh snowfall off our driveway. My arms…

  • PSA (2/27/21): Frank Joseph Tassone, Eagle Scout!

    Frank is now an Eagle Scout!Mira and I are so happy for him, and proud of him! He earned Scouting’s highest award in three years of advancement! His service project was a restoration of a memorial to Suffern resident and BSA co-founder Daniel Carter Beard. Troop 21, Frank’s troop, is also Mr. Beard’s final scouting…

  • The Path of Interior Silence: A Haibun Lenten reflection | Where Peter Is

    Delighted to premier on the website Where Peter Is with this haibun-reflection! Thank you Mike Lewis and all of the wonderful editors and staff there! The later-afternoon sky fills with cirrus clouds again. The expected snow has not yet arrived, but my rheumatic joints inform me that it’s only a matter of time. That will…

  • Sent: A #Quadrille #Haibun

    “The Spirit drove Jesus out into the desert…” MK 1:12 “Go!” This joyous fullness drives me on. Abba’s luminocity, the descended Ruach-as-dove: now, they’re a driving whirlwind, an inferno. “Go!” I stagger. Stumble. Drop to one knee. Rise up. Continue. To the desert. Where my forty-day fast awaits. “Go!” Solitude gold tested in fire for…

  • Confessions of a Hue: a #haibun

    I embody it. Yes, ever-yielding, always giving way: Nonetheless, I conquer. Ask the Appalachia. They towered over Everest once. Until I fell, storm after storm, for aeons. Now, their rounded peaks, bent like geriatric backs, no longer stab the blue above. Ever the softest, yet even the diamond-hard surrenders to me. I break your heart.…