Frank J. Tassone

Tag: NaPoWriMo2018

  • “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…

  • My Daily #Haiku (4/4/18)

    4/4/18: dragonfly pouring rain … not one dragonfly in sight #haiku #micropoetry #poetry #glopowrimo2018 #napowrimo2018 4/30

  • #Tanka Tuesday #2: My Lady’s Highlights

      My Lady’s highlights in the flickering light of freshly lit candles tossed sheets illuminated by an Easter Full Sap Moon     for Kiwinana’s #Weekly Tanka Prompt #Poetry Challenge – Week 91 – Lady & Highlights    

  • #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          

  • My Daily #Haiku (4/3/18)

    4/3/18: empty her yellow tulips listening to an empty bell #haiku #micropoetry #poetry #NaPoWriMo 3/30 #GloMoWriMo2018

  • Coffee-making Mayhem…#npm2018 #NaPoWriMo #GloPoWriMo #senryu #haibun

      “Did you pour water?” As gasping sounds emerge from the coffee maker…   “Why wouldn’t I?” a quick check of the machine anyway…   Reveals a coffee-maker filled with coffee.   But not water.   “Fool of a man! Less poetry, more coffee-making!” As a hastily-added caraf of water pours into a thirsty machine!…

  • First Easter After Dad: an .@ImageCurve #haibun…#napowrimo2018 #npm

    First Easter after Dad       Chocolate-centered pastries; strawberry shortcake; sliced pineapple, melon and cantaloupe: all on platters spread across the row of tables. A pitcher of homemade red wine sits near empty glasses. Mira and her sisters rest on the sofas in the adjoining living room. My brothers-in-law linger at the dining room…

  • #Napowrimo2018 cometh…a #Senryu Saturday (3/24/18) #haibun announcement

      April is National Poetry Month. National Poetry Writing Month, or NaPoWriMo, has become a way poets and poet bloggers celebrate it. I wrote my first 30 in 30 last year, and I will do so again this year. As if the madness of #nahaiwrimo2018 wasn’t enough, right? Stay tuned…the fun begins Easter Sunday. Which…