Frank J. Tassone

Tag: haibun

  • #Haikai Challenge #80 (4/6/19): cherry [blossoms] (sakura) #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka #haiga #renga

    How did you enjoy the twittering, haijin? Very well, it seems! Congratulations to last week’s contributors: Haikai Challenge Participants 1. Ken Gierke / rivrvlogr2. Tessa3. Reena Saxena4. ennle madresan5. Jules @ fiction 6. Jane Dougherty7. Janice8. Pat R9. Dwight L. Roth10. The Dark Netizen 11. Helene Vaillant12. Xenia Tran13. Revived Writer Powered by… Mister Linky’s…

  • After the Fall: a #writephoto #NaPoWriMo2019 / #GloPoWriMo2019

    If I could guide the hand of kings after the fall. But the light reached it’s Apex at the height of Arthur’s reign. And it fell to its nadir at Camlann. If I could guide hearts of queens after the fall. But my counsel remains unspoken as I continue my crystal slumber. So the Virgin…

  • Smuggs ’14 Chronicle, Day 2, July 26, 2018

    see Mansfield againbefore taking the plunge downthe spiral pipe sliderelaxing in the hot tubFrankie under my arm The Cabot Factory Outlet in Waterbury offered a crowded house more than cheese samples. A pixie-cut-haired young woman from a new “Meadery” offered tastings from the fledgling enterprise’s three meads. Free mead, along with the purchase of our…

  • Stealing Fresh Fire: A #TankaProse

    I can hear Nirvana playing in my head again. Even though the converted bathroom my Special Education Department calls an office is filled, I unleash the melody of my earworm. Soon the tell-tale lyrical opening plays in their heads: Come, as you are, as you were as I want you to be As a friend,…

  • An Eagle Ascending

    My mother and father conceived me while they spiralled together toward the earth. I fought my way out of the hard shell of my egg during my hatching, after an incubation in which they took turns warming me. I fed on scraps of fish snatched from the Hudson–or an osprey’s nest. My plumage grew. Soon,…

  • Monday Morning Survival Guide (4/1/19): a #haibun

    It happens to us all. The alarm clock goes off. A robin sings like a rooster at first light. Or way too much daylight breaches the blinds. Sooner or later, we all face the same brutal reality: Monday morning. Take heart! There is hope for coping with this inescapable first morning of the work week.…

  • Enlightenment: a #writephoto #haibun

    Get up. Step out from the shadows. Did I pierce the veil to address an undergrowth bathed in shade? Come, and bear witness to the light! You thought you were abandoned, left “alone and naked in the wilderness.” You shuddered to think as the darkness crept in. You stole glimpses of declining daylight from the…

  • #Haikai Challenge #79 (3/30/19): twittering (saezuri) #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka #haiga #renga

    It’s great to see how many of you enjoyed the swallow, haijin! Congratulations to last week’s contributors: Haikai Challenge Participants 1. Ken Gierke / rivrvlogr2. Dwight L. Roth3. Tessa4. Jane Dougherty5. Reena Saxena 6. The Dark Netizen7. Xenia Tran8. Janice9. Jules @ fiction10. Xenia Tran (2) 11. Helene Vaillant12. ennle madresan13. Revived Writer14. Jim Feeney…