Frank J. Tassone

Tag: haibun

  • #Haikai Challenge #64 (12/8/18) winter mountains (fuyu no yama) #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka #haiga #renga

      Thank you for celebrating Advent and Hanukkah, haijin!   Congratulations to last week’s contributors:   Haikai Challenge Participants 1. Dwight L. Roth2. Toni Spencer 3. Jane Dougherty4. Jules @ Strands 5. Merril D. Smith6. Revived Writer Powered by… Mister Linky’s Magical Widgets.   Moving forward:   It’s late Autumn in the northern hemisphere, but…

  • The Folly of Dashed Expectations: a #writephoto #haibun (12/5/18)

       The forecast called for a few flurries. A wide ribbon of immaculate snow should not cover the road. The sight of naked branches behind the wire fence is odd enough. A field ripe for harvesting usually greets me instead.   Sudden snowfall is an unwelcome suprise. But then again, what should I expect? Winter…

  • Covert Essentials: a #TankaTuesday #TankaProse (12/4/18)

      Wind-tossed hair. Light rippling across turf-pounding crests. The roar of sea slapping land. The whirl of wind peeling around a bluff jutting into a foamy sea. The intimacy of losing every sense of separation from creation, amidst the battering elements that intoxicate every sense. The stillness inherent in the movement of wind and water.…

  • Cheering Down the Darkness: a #Quadrille #haibun

      So little to celebrate. Raging wildfires. Persecuted refugees. Genocidal shootings.  A hate-frothing darkness threatens to swallow all. For what can we cheer?   That light shines in the darkness. That Love drives out hate. That we can.   Holy Days another lit candle piercing the gloom       for dVerse Poets’ Quadrille #70: Poems…

  • #Haikai Challenge #63 (12/2/18) Advent and/or Hanukkah #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka #haiga #renga

      Hope you enjoyed your moon gazing, haijin. Many of you did.   Congratulations, last week’s contributors:    Haikai Challenge Participants 1. Dwight L. Roth2. Toni Spencer23. Jane Dougherty4. Jules @ Strands5. Janice 6. Tina Stewart Brakebill7. Violet Lentz8. lynn9. The Dark Netizen10. Xenia Tran 11. Ken Gierke / rivrvlogr12. Revived Writer13. Helene Vaillant Powered…

  • November 11, 2012: a #TBT .@ImageCurve #Haibun

    We make it to the Veteran’s Day concert at West Point. The storied USMA band plays melodies dating back to “Chester”, the most popular drum and piper tune during the Revolutionary War. The music charms, the slideshow entertains, but where are the Jazz Knights? Then I hear Big Band music from the World War II…

  • Phoenix Song: a #TankaTuesday (11/27/18) #TankaProse

       Long past time to put this chill in the past gather the pyre ignite the consuming blaze that restores the life taken    The first crackles of flame yield a tendril of smoke. The fire grows, feasting on the dry kindling and tinder wound through dry wood. It won’t take long.   I hear…

  • Awaiting the Doctor: An .@ImageCurve #haibun

        Conversations carry on outside the grain-laminate door. Papers rustle. A phone rings with a staccato four-beat tone in the key of “E”. Lights hum. I sit in the last examination room on the left. A middle-aged Filipina in sky-blue scrubs measures my blood pressure. Her eyes widen. “Let me take it on your…