Frank J. Tassone

Tag: haibun

  • #Haikai Challenge #85 (5/12/19): rainy season (tsuyu) #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka #haiga #renga

    Did you enjoy getting your green on, haijin? A number of you did! Congratulations to last week’s contributors: Haikai Challenge Participants 1. Maureen Sudlow2. Pat R3. Deborah4. Tessa 5. The Dark Netizen6. Xenia Tran7. Jules8. Linda Lee Lyberg 9. Violet10. Revived Writer Powered by… Mister Linky’s Magical Widgets. Looking ahead: More rain. All day today.…

  • A Memorial Mother’s Day

    Rainfall. Temperatures plummet below fifty degrees F, from almost seventy yesterday. Every so often, leaves rustle and the wind chimes sound. We recover from hosting thirty of our family for Frankie’s confirmation barbeque. A quiet day resting at home is the Mother’s Day present Mira wants most this year. wet fire pit the last ambers…

  • Clay Rooted: a #writephoto #haibun

    Princes and Kings call themselves “orphans, widowers, beggars,” to get themselves rooted in the dirt” Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching: A Book about the Way and the Power of the Way, Ursula K Le Guin, pg. 164 We were so dug in, we thought. Look how our shared experience intertwined us. How the gallows humor…

  • The Vanity of Our Theorizing

    I read Robert Pirsig’s Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. I shuddered when Phaedrus articulated his theory of “quality,” only to experience a breakdown when he realizes that he simply rediscovered Laoxi’s insight–codified in the Tao Te Ching some 500 years before the birth of Christ: The way you can go isn’t the real…

  • Get Up: a #Quadrille #Haibun

    Yes, I’ve fallen. But I can get up. A thousand, thousand times I’ve kissed the ground. A thousand, thousand and one I’ve kissed the sky. I’m only a breath away from rising again. all of the years since “Eye of the tiger” cloud-piercing sun for dVerse Poets’ Quadrille #79 (pubtended by De Jackson, where she…

  • Special Announcement (5/5/19)!

    I am honored to announce that I have joined the team at dVerse Poets Pub! Thank you, Bjorn, for your invitation, Grace, for your invaluable support during my transition, and the entire d’Verse Team for their warm welcome! I hope to premier on the May 27th Haibun Monday. I leave you with my dVerse bio:…

  • #Haikai Challenge #84 (5/5/19): trees newly green (shinju) #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka #haiga #renga

    Hope you enjoyed your blossom haze, haijin! Congratulations to last week’s contributors: Haikai Challenge Participants 1. Tessa2. Isabel Caves3. Janice4. Ken Gierke / rivrvlogr 5. Jules6. Helene Vaillant7. Leyda Bien8. Xenia Tran 9. Deborah10. Pat R11. Revived Writer12. Linda Lee Lyberg Powered by… Mister Linky’s Magical Widgets. Onward! May has arrived. But to the New…

  • Star Wars Day ’19: Legacy of a Last Jedi: a #haibun chronicle of Luke Skywalker Redux

    Originally posted on Frank J. Tassone: (SPOILER ALERT: If you’re one of the handful that still hasn’t seen Star Wars: The Last Jedi, be warned!) How did it all go so wrong? I was the hero of the rebellion against the empire. I was the last hope of the Jedi. But when it was time…