Frank J. Tassone

Tag: haibun

  • Jungian Mourning

    “…And the rest is silence.” cold moon

  • Merry Christmas! (2018)

    May all of you that celebrate enjoy a very, merry Christmas! I am taking off tomorrow, so I will see you all Wednesday! Christmas unwrapping presents with my greatest gifts

  • This Year’s Christmas Tree

    Deep Evergreen. Full. Red and gold balls and bells; tops with gilded bands; Russian-esque spires all around. Four sets of lights; the white nina doll ornaments Mira loves. The giant bow. Our Christmas tree, welcoming as ever. Shadows deep within the brightly-lit boughs — the only hint of sorrow in the joy cold nightwe place…

  • O Holy Night: A #tankaprose (Redux)

    those shepherds’ reality Cold, starry night pierced by novel light among the singing stars they find a manger-laden babe A veil of all-to-human darkness fallen upon the world. Client-kings cater to the lock-step of Legionnaires bearing the word of Caesar. How could such a new star shine for the newborn of a woman whose own husband denies paternity?…

  • Relocating the Gingerbread Man (Redux): a #Christmas #haibun courtesy of .@ImageCurve

    It is a delicate procedure. One so precarious that Frankie runs from the kitchen, saying, “I can’t bear to watch in case this goes south.” Mira emerges from the kitchen. The gingerbread house Frankie worked on rests on a glass cake stand. new centerpieceiTunes’ carols playing asa proud pastry chefadmires his masterpiecein our Christmas trees’…

  • The Message of the Nativity: a #writephoto #TankaProse

    passing light a virgin’s assent saves us all What better effort from the heart can we expect? The last light of the shortest day casts a pallid orange across an empty sky. Caesar’s decree ensures that a speck of a city like Bethlehem will quickly overflow. The carpenter that leads a donkey laden with his…

  • A Yard House Encounter: an .@ImageCurve #haibun

    The beer sampler at the Yard House comes in six 5-ounce glasses. That’s a duce shy of two pints. Chris and I down them while we share an appetizer of boneless buffalo wings with hot sauce, blue cheese and celery sticks. The first bite bursts in my mouth, an explosion of spice so strong that…

  • #Haikai Challenge #66 (12/22/18) Christmas #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka #haiga #renga

    Enjoy your longest day/night, haijin? Congratulations to last week’s contributors: Haikai Challenge Participants 1. Reena Saxena2. Jane Dougherty3. Ken Gierke / rivrvlogr4. Dwight L. Roth5. Suzanne 6. The Dark Netizen7. Janice8. Jules @ Strands9. Merril D. Smith10. Toni Spencer 11. Helene Vaillant12. Revived Writer13. Linda Lee Lyberg14. Xenia Tran15. Ken Gierke / rivrvlogr Powered by……