Frank J. Tassone

Tag: haiku

  • Amid the Clutter: A #FreestyleFriday (8/31/2018) .@ImageCurve #haibun

      Thick reams of paper everywhere. The folders on my desk organizer bulge out with them. I can’t see the top of my desk. Jaime has no room for her piles. Even our circular conference table, tucked in the corner of the narrow office, has manila folders, crumpled worksheets, parental rights documents spread all over.…

  • “Walking the Path…”: A #writephoto #haibun

      Where are you leading me?   The mist rolls in. The cold and rain accompanying it envelop me like a fisherman’s expertly cast net. The ascent continues. To where, I don’t know.   Only that your whisper, “follow me,” drives me onward.   But the climb besieges me. I think of the colleague and…

  • My Daily #Haiku (8/31/18)

    8/31/18: umbrella summer rain an umbrella in the car #haiku #micropoetry #poetry

  • Going Somewhere? A #sonnet #haibun

      The woosh of passing wind as I move on, the bam!bam!bam! of hammers fall away. These wheels that crunch on gravel just beyond, a highway exit ramp to the blue way, where life slows down with every town I pass; and burdens born from crow-caws to day’s rind yeild to a precious peace I…

  • Close Encounter: #TBT .@ImageCurve #haibun

      Mom said something. “Ok,” I answered, stepping out of the kitchen and into the living room. Then one more step toward the door.   CRASH!   Shards of shattered glass rained down on the couch, coffee table, and carpet—one step away from me. A Chevy Blazer’s back end hung through our obliterated living room…

  • My Daily #Haiku (8/30/18)

    8/30/18: kind “a scout is kind” so often ignored … social media #haiku #senryu #micropoetry #poetry

  • Tending wildfires: A #haibun

      “What if …?”   And the catasrophizing begins. The breaks fail. The school finds out I’m a fraud. The well of inspiration dries. The missles launch as the last potable water evaporates. Or the inevitable destiny to live ’til I die in a box on skid row arrives. O, how the anxious mind creates…

  • “Sweltering Heat…”: A #tanka (8/29/18)

          sweltering heat the doctor-ordered tai chi still undone the lure of a verdant lawn I continue to ignore