Frank J. Tassone

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  • Seeing Broadway

    Is it the Broadway we want to see? Bustling theaters, sidewalks filled with tourists that line up with their pre-purchased tickets, the costumed characters harassing visitors for a photo. Is it the Broadway we see? Empty streets and sidewalks, darkened theaters, the cavernous echo of a once bustling midtown. Is this the Broadway we will…

  • Minnewaska March

    We hit the road for Minnewaska State Park Preserve, in the Shawangunk Mountains outside New Paltz, NY, by 7:30. Arriving just before 9:00, we join the fortunate, 50%-of-park-capacity visitors admitted before the gates close. Of course, since park personnel direct us to the Awosting Falls parking lot, we face a mile ascent up the Sunset…

  • Featured Poem Alert: Weekly Poetry Challenge Stars | #PhotoPrompt: Frank Tassone – Word Craft ~ Prose and Poetry

    Delighted to learn that Colleen Chesebro has selected my tanka-prose Predation as her featured poem of her 2020 Weekly #Tanka Tuesday #Poetry Challenge No. 178 #PhotoPrompt! For me, Frank’s tanka prose echoes the political realities of our brave new world. I also like that he wrote in the second person as if pointing his figure…

  • #SilentSunday (5/24/20)

    A rest from #haiku See you tomorrow!

  • To Journey on, or not to Journey on … a #TankaProse

    The road less traveled continues. The choice to follow it or turn back remains. No one else makes that decision. No one else faces the consequence. spring gusts after a morning of rain the effort of taking one step, then another for 23rd May 2020 prompt: Gerry Muse #208 (occasional tanka prose) Walking On

  • “sunlit ripples…” a #tanka (5/21/20)

    sunlit ripples as the current continues through the bend all the times I fought when I could have flowed #tanka #micropoetry #poetry I’m hosting MTB today at dVerse Poets, where we explore 5-line Japanese Poetic Forms. The pub is open! Come join us!

  • Predation: a #Quadrille #TankaProse

    When did you imagine that the world revolved around you? Did it take a stray strand of rogue gene to prove otherwise? How utterly predictable of you! a glimpse of pitiable reptillian indifference … we can only blame ourselves for the fix that we’re in for Colleen’s 2020 Weekly #Tanka Tuesday #Poetry Challenge No. 178…

  • Completing the Chore: a .@ImageCurve #haibun

    The dishwasher hums, and the whooshing of its water drowns out the crickets. I eat my oatmeal out of Frankie’s Frosted Flakes bowl: not another clean one remains. warm aftertasteempty pill containersbeside bottles first published in Image Curve, May 14, 2020 UPDATE: for dVerse Poets’ OpenLinkNight #267 (pubtended by Grace) The Pub is open! Come…