Frank J. Tassone

Tag: haibun

  • Exploring Peekskill: an .@ImageCurve #haibun

    The traffic is bumper-to-bumper south of Anthony Wayne Recreation Area. A five-minute drive to the first exit for Bear Mountain takes an hour. When we learn the park is closed, due to reaching capacity, we realize we won’t make Oktoberfest. parked carson the highway medianfoot traffic Peekskill’s Downtown Art district consists of a short row…

  • Transformations: a #Tanka-prose

    The cold and the dark press in. No matter. I find my root, cry out from the depths of my center, then let go. The searing light and incendiary heat of the arising Spirit ignite an ordinary despair into an extraordinary hope. How could it be any other way? even as crickets and cicadas sing…

  • PSA: my 4th Blogiversary

    Four years. The first I blogged about once a week—until #NPM 2017. I posted a #haikai poem a day that April. Amazingly, my daily views began to rise. Four years later, I have nearly 800 followers—two-hundred more than last year. I’m exceeding last years numbers of monthly views. I’m averaging over a hundred per day.…

  • #Haikai Challenge #158 (9/28/20): Harvest Moon (meigetsu) #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka #haiga #renga

    Have you equinoxed enough, haijin? Congratulations to last week’s contributors: Haikai Challenge Participants 1. Ken Gierke / rivrvlogr2. Colleen Chesebro3. Eugenia4. Jules5. Ron. Lavalette6. willowdot217. Li/Lisa Fox of W MI, USA 8. Goutam Dutta9. Jane Dougherty10. Tina Stewart Brakebill11. Linda Lee Lyberg12. Kerfe Roig13. Xenia Tran14. Jules #2 15. Pat R16. s.s.17. Christine Bolton, Poetry…

  • Mindful Moongazing

    There is a story of a thief and a zen master. The thief breaks into the master’s home to rob him, only to discover that the master owns nothing. Seeing the thief has worked hard for nothing, the zen master gives the thief the clothes off his back. After the perplexed thief departs, the naked…

  • Lunch—deferred: an @ImageCurve #haibun

    All he needed to do was print his answers. But when he plugged his Alpha Smart into the printer and keyed the sequence to print, the device failed. We waited—in vain—for help from Astor’s Tech support, a CUNY intern in over his head. I scribed his answers and then walked him to class. All I…

  • #Haikai Challenge #157 (9/20/20): Autumn/Spring Equinox (Shunbun) #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka #haiga #renga

    I hope you enjoyed some refreshing coolness, haijin! Congratulations to last week’s contributors: Haikai Challenge Participants 1. Goutam Dutta2. Xenia Tran3. Linda Lee Lyberg4. Jane Dougherty5. s.s. 6. Myforever.blog7. Li/Lisa Fox of W MI, USA8. Eugenia9. Jules10. willowdot21 11. Pat R12. Janice13. Christine Bolton, Poetry for Healing #214. Peter Powered by… Mister Linky’s Magical Widgets.…

  • A Troubled Reunion: a #TankaProse

    It has been years, but we are assigned the same co-teaching class again. Echoes of past trauma arise, and with them the familiar tension and gut cramping. But I am not the same as I was, then. I can practice relational Tai Chi. I am water. It’s time to flow. no discouragementeven experiencingunfortunate newstake one…