Frank J. Tassone

Tag: haikai

  • #haikai challenge update…#haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka

    Expect the next #haikai challenge tomorrow!   super moon   delays from preparing   a new family room

  • #HaikaiChallenge #9(11/25/2017)…#haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka

    Take a bow, poets, for accepting last week’s challenge! Jilly– Live Oaks Retain Life petrujiveljoen– Thanksgiving qbit– Haiku–Thanksgiving Xenia Tran– Tanka: Counting Blessings revivedwriter– Thanksgiving Moving on to this week’s challenge! November comes to a close this week. Days shorten. Leaves shrivel and drop. Winter’s chill approaches. What could be a better time to celebrate…

  • #Haikai Challenge #8 (11/19/17) #haiku #senryu #tanka #haibun

      “Bellagio Decoration: Thanksgiving”, Marcho Verch, Wikimedia Commons   Thank you for last week’s Birthday well-wishes. I appreciate it!   Congratulations to last week’s participants!   Jilly- Heart Protector qbit- Haiku-Veteran’s Day revivedwriter- Veteran Charley- A Veteran Walks Away -Xenia- haibun-Remembrance Day   Onward!   This Thursday, The United States celebrates Thanksgiving. As Autumn progresses…

  • #Haikai Challenge #6 (11/4/17): Saints and Souls #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka

    Here’s to last week’s participating poets, for their contributions to #haikai challenge #5 (10/28/17)–Halloween: Jilly–Trick or… Charley–Troiku–Night Fire revivedwriter–Halloween qbit–All Hallow’s Eve   Onward, now, to this week’s challenge: It’s November fourth. November 1st and 2nd collectively have been called the Catholic Days of the Dead. November the first is the Feast of All Saints…

  • #Haikai Challenge 1

    Welcome to my inaugural Haikai Challenge! Take your opportunity to contribute to the art! It’s October! The famed harvest celebrations bearing the month’s name wind down in Bavaria but just get started in Germany. Fall foliage is around the  corner! And that spooky night waits in the wings. So raise your steins and get your…

  • #Haiku Happenings #4: The latest from the Haiku Foundation–pedagogy and puzzles

    Check out today’s offerings: https://www.thehaikufoundation.org/2017/08/15/back-to-school-help-2-teaching-stories/ https://www.thehaikufoundation.org/2017/08/15/thf-weekly-haiku-puzzler-89/ For the record, I’m still working on the puzzler for this week.

  • #haiku happenings #3: Charlotte Degregorio’s Daily Haiku: Aug. 14, 2017

    Originally posted on Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog: Dear Readers and Followers: Today on The Daily Haiku, we are dong something different from the usual. Many of you are familiar with Tom Painting, longtime award-winning poet of haiku whose work is often featured on this blog. Tom is a teacher at Paideia School in…