Frank J. Tassone

Tag: haiku

  • My Daily #Haiku (7/24/20)

    7/24/20: Faith Faith as smallas a mustard seed …waterfall #haiku #micropoetry #poetry

  • HSA Meeting: an .@ImageCurve #haibun

    The Haiku Society of America’s NYC Metro chapter hosted the Society’s National Meeting. Held in a modest community room of a local West Village Arts center, perhaps 22 people gathered in the space. Forty chairs had been set in a twin series of rows flanking an aisle. Track lighting illuminated a performance space at the…

  • “a trembling leaf…” a #tanka (7/23/20)

    7/23/20: PROMPT — Loving acts take away fear a trembling leaf falls in the latest summer wind a girl’s steady hand places a flower in a gun #tanka #micropoetry #poetry

  • My Daily #Haiku (7/23/20)

    7/23/20: mountains summer stormthe years since driving throughthe Adirondacks #haiku #micropoetry #haiku

  • These Mom Revolutions

    Hungry mothers marched toward the Russian captial in Petrograd. They demanded bread, provisions for their sons fighting on the Eastern Front in WWI. Cossocks and local police attempted to turn them back. Some officer ordered young, inexperienced, and under equipped soldiers to fire into the crowd. But when they looked down their rifles’ gunsights, they…

  • “swaying branches…” a #tanka (7/22/20)

    7/22/20: prompt-free swaying branches as cicada songs commence all these summer goals undone and half the break is over #tanka #micropoetry #poetry

  • My Daily #Haiku (7/22/20)

    7/22/20: wisdom browning grass —a prayer for “the wisdomto know the difference…” #haiku#micropoetry#poetry

  • Anniversary: a #Tanka-prose #ode

    All the gifts of a twenty-year marriage, resting on the shores of a shared life, polished to perfection by the imperfection of an extraordinary love. Anniversary and a summer breeze blows on a searing day how this heartbreaking joy overflows again, again for Colleen’s 2020 Weekly #Tanka Tuesday #Poetry Challenge No. 187 #PhotoPrompt