Frank J. Tassone

Tag: haiku

  • #Haiku (4/25/24)

    #Haiku (4/25/24)

    4/25/24: canvas blank canvas breathless before late cherry blossoms #haiku #micropoetry #poetry UPDATE: for my own #Haikai Challenge II #14

  • #Haikai Challenge II #14 (4/24/24): [Late]Cherry Blossom (osozakura) #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka #kyoka #haiga #renga #HaikaiChallenge

    #Haikai Challenge II #14 (4/24/24): [Late]Cherry Blossom (osozakura) #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka #kyoka #haiga #renga #HaikaiChallenge

    Some of you haijin risked being blinded by the light to savor the solar eclipse. Congratulations to last week’s contributors: Haikai Challenge Participants 1. Suzette Benjamin2. Eugi3. Jules 4. Ben Tonkin5. Colleen Chesebro6. J M Negi 7. Melissa8. Frank J. Tassone Powered by… Mister Linky’s Magical Widgets. Ultreya! What a National Poetry Month this has…

  • A Pathfinder’s Offer

    A Pathfinder’s Offer

    call me pathfinder that is who you need when lost is it not? The signs invisible no trace of a trail to find follow me as I walk the way through for you unless you cherish tramping through the wilderness alone the choice is always your own and with it consequences for the lost flounder…

  • #Haiku/#Senryu (4/24/23)

    #Haiku/#Senryu (4/24/23)

    4/24/24: strategy Union Square Park a chess hustler takes the king in 4 moves #haiku #senryu #micropoetry #poetry

  • Oh, Wolverine

    Oh, Wolverine

    “I’m the best there is at what I do.” —James Howlett/Logan, aka Wolverine You were my favorite X-man. I enjoyed your cynical, gruff attitude. So the opposite of the sensitive, people-pleaser that high school bullies loved to target. I appreciated your no-nonsense fighting skill, and how you “had moves like Carter’s got little pills.” It…

  • “a glint of light…” a #tanka (4/23/24)

    “a glint of light…” a #tanka (4/23/24)

    4/23/24: cover a glint of light between wind-rippled green leaves how we cover the world with our expectations #tanka#micropoetry#poetry

  • #Haiku (4/23/24)

    #Haiku (4/23/24)

    4/23/24: bed birdsongs getting out of bed at first light #haiku #micropoetry #poetry

  • Indigenous Ironies

    Indigenous Ironies

    Frank and I visited the National Museum of the American Indian in New York City today. Located in the Alexander Hamilton US Custom House, the museum opens to a grand, oval-shaped rotunda. Murals of milestones from the US appear, alongside representations of the explorers famously associated with the US. Ironic, considering how their expeditions impacted…