Frank J. Tassone

Tag: haiku

  • Ambivalence at the Dual Meet: a solo #Renga

    chilling wind a blue sky consumed by storm clouds an utter betrayal of the Equinox last sunlight eclipsed by a torrent of storm clouds we huddle together to share our last fading warmth a tease of rain remnants of a winter refusing to die A frigid deluge gathers to drown our last hopes of warmth…

  • 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.…

  • My Daily #Haiku (4/1/19)

    4/1/19: arms-length April Fool’s Day I keep all of the jokes at arms-length #haiku #senryu #micropoetry #poetry #NaPoWriMo2019 1/30 #GloPoWriMo2019

  • 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…

  • My Daily #Haiku (3/30/19)

    3/30/19: crest first robin song … another depleted tube of Crest #haiku #micropoetry #poetry

  • My Daily #Haiku #2 (3/29/19)

    speaking insidewith their outside voiceshigh school freshmen #haikuchallenge (outside) #haiku #senryu #micropoetry #poetry

  • “loud pounding on…” a #tanka (3/29/19)

    3/29/19: prompt-free loud pounding on iron walls in that staircase next to that classroom the sense of futility as the instigators walk #tanka #kyoka #micropoetry #poetry