Frank J. Tassone

Tag: haiku

  • Amore Ultima

    1998. The Palisades Center, outside the Lowes Theater. You arrive with our mutual friend Laura. The world blurs, and only you fall into focus. The conversation of Chris and my other friends becomes background muzak to our conversation. We all walk toward a coffee kiosk, where I wanted to buy you a cup, but didn’t.…

  • My Daily #Haiku (3/16/19)

    3/16/19: bard another bard performs another poem robin song #haiku #micropoetry #poetry

  • Miniature Train-Riding

    I almost can’t remember how the trains raced around the track. How Dad and I adjusted knobs and toggled twitches. How town lights turned on and off; how locomotives whirled out of the tunnel. I almost can’t remember how much I miss those times with him. Almost. train tableso much of his lovemade by his…

  • “Ides of March…” a #tanka (3/15/19)

    3/15/19: prompt-free Ides of March shell casings fall to a floor stained with blood Another house of worship filled with fallen innocents #tanka #haiku #micropoetry #poetry #ChristchurchMosqueAttack

  • My Daily #Haiku (3/15/19)

    3/15/19: bend Ides of March … gunfire in the mosque around the bend #haiku #micropoetry #poetry #ChristchurchMosqueAttack

  • “Three-point-fourteen…” (3/14/19)

    3/14/19: prompt-free Three-point-fourteen and the eternal numbers that continue how much of life symbolized by irrational decimals? #tanka #micropoetry #poetry #PiDay2019

  • My Daily #Haiku (3/14/19)

    3/14/19: loanword Pi day sipping a cappuccino at a cafe #haiku #micropoetry #poetry

  • The Patience of Water: a #writephoto #haibun

    Watch the ripples. Then wait for the water to still. See the clear reflection of the white birch growing over from the far shore. See the green of the surrounding canopy in that liquid mirror. Let that stillness become your own. The neighbor walked his golden retriever along the edge of the front yard. The…