Frank J. Tassone

Tag: NaPoWriMo2019

  • An Ekphrastic Correspondence

    Oh, Alisaka, That I could rise to the heights of your cranes. But I am earthbound, and my words can only marvel at your deft brushstrokes. mountain mists fledglings at their mother’s side for so many years this relic of college days still hanging for dVerse Poets’ Quadrille #78: Rise (pubtended by Merril Smith) #NaPoWriMo2019…

  • Nightmarescape

    I sketch the impressions that even now fade away. A night sky, a street filled with teens partying, cavourting, fighting. They close around me, and I just manage to break away. Another street, with darkened brownstones, and commercial buildings in the distance. I walk with someone I call a friend, although I do not recognize…

  • #Haikai Challenge #82 (4/21/19): Easter Lily #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka #haiga #renga

    Welcome back from your moon gazing, haijin! Congratulations to last week’s contributors: Haikai Challenge Participants 1. Tessa2. Dwight L. Roth3. Ennle Madresan4. The Dark Netizen5. Jane Dougherty 6. Deborah7. Suzanne8. Jules9. Violet10. Helene Vaillant 11. Pat R12. Frank J. Tassone13. Janice Powered by… Mister Linky’s Magical Widgets. Ultreya! Welcome to this special Easter Sunday edition…

  • My Daily #Haiku (4/21/19)

    4/21/19: Vat Easter dream I fall into a vat of Ben and Jerry’s #haiku #micropoetry #poetry #NaPoWriMo2019 / #GloPoWriMo2019 21/30

  • “Late cherry blossoms…” a #tanka (4/20/19)

    4/20/19: Gerry Muse (collaboration) late cherry blossoms the renga I co-wrote two years ago how long since I enjoyed poetry collaboration? #tanka #micropoetry #poetry #NaPoWriMo2019 #GloPoWriMo2019

  • Darkness and Light Dialoguing

    I get a bad rap, he says, and I just roll my eyes. What do you expect, I say, They’re blind around you. And they see just fine around you, he snaps, ain’t you special? I sigh, for it’s always like this lately. Complain, complain, complain! Is it my fault they depend on their eyes,…

  • My Daily #Haiku (4/20/19)

    4/20/19: unseen nighttime rain another obscured Pink Moon #haiku #micropoetry #poetry #NaPoWriMo2019 / #GloPoWriMo2019 20/30

  • Smuggs ’14 Chronicle, Day 4, July 28, 2014: My latest .@ImageCurve #Haibun

    Rain falls steady. I see the faint lines of its passage from my perch on the sofa. Classical music—a composition sounding suspiciously like circus music—plays on Vermont Public Radio. Three years with little rain: we had a good run. We therefore settle in for a cozy downtime, having earned $100 American Express gift card for…