Frank J. Tassone

Tag: Imaginary Gardens with Real Toads

  • “Call me…”

    Photo by Yianni Tzan on Unsplash   Never mind my name. Our true names have power, and why would I willingly offer anyone such power over me? This is what you can call me.   Daybreak … silence broken by songbirds   Call me Bard. Hear the verses I recite. See the sweeping plains razed by the west…

  • #Tanka Tuesday (4/3/18/): Son Rise–a #Writephoto tanka

      Son Rise Keeping faith with you for two millenia despite our legion of sins our oceans of tears   for COLLEEN’S 2018 #TANKA TUESDAY #POETRY CHALLENGE NO. 78, GROW & HONOR, #SNYNONYMSONLY Sue Vincent’s #writephoto With Real Toads’ Tuesday Platform: napowrimo style   #GloPoWriMo2018 / #NaPoWriMo2018 3/30          

  • Triduum: a #Tanaga-prose #haibun

    courtesy of the National Catholic Register   Holy Thursday. My intention to attend mass collides with our exhaustion. Mira and I both have not slept well the past two nights–she worse off than me. A simple marinara penne with tilapia and shrimp, a bountiful glass of burgundy or three, and our inevitable crash on the…

  • Spring Suite: an .@ImageCurve #haibun collection

      Prologue   Spring morning a moment of grace in the sun winter-hardened soil yields the season’s first chutes     Spring Suite, Part I: At the NJ Botanical Gardens     The twin rows of apple trees define a path down the center of Skyland Manor’s Great Lawn. They won’t blossom until May. Many…

  • A Defiant Embrace of Spring : a #Tanka Tuesday #tankaprose

    The Weather Channel   vernal bliss do not go gentle into this new spring! rage, rage against the living of winter!   So the equinox comes. Spring, for we living north of the equator. Fall, for those dwelling south of it. The inauguration of a temperate season, regardless of hemisphere, commences today. Nevertheless, Nor’easter Toby…

  • A Mortal Scream Epistle: a #shadormaprose #letterpoem

    Edvard Munch [Public domain or Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons   You would not understand were you still on my side of the veil. I only hope that on your side, you do, and will forgive me for bearing witness. Just as I hope to someday forgive you.   Three AM you dare scream my…

  • Hearthfire: A #Tanka Tuesday-on-a-Wednesday #tankaprose #Quadrille

    Hearthfire     new fire enduring fresh smoke from burning verdant wood Your face in firelight as you retell your story   you familiar words, rising above the cackling flames and flying sparks   snowfall the gentle grace by which you balance fuel  this blazing hearthfire our only warmth   for: dVerse’s Quadrille #52 Let’s Fire…

  • A Love Token: a #tankaprose… #haiku #haibun #tanka

    Photo by Carlos Quintero on Unsplash   you revive all my words of love from our green moments a present you present me one bright afternoon   There they are. Every verse I ever wrote, on every card I ever gave. All typed in Times-New Roman font in a word file. You print me the file you created…