Tag: photo
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Anniversary: 3 years of Haikai Matters!
Delighted to celebrate my third anniversary today! Thank you for sharing this haikai journey with me! poem by poem letting everyone know haikai matters
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Lepidopteric* Encounters: An .@ImageCurve #haibun
We step through the second door, entering the arbortorium, and feel saturated by semi-tropical heat and humidity! Large palms and other representative flora grow out of the center. The palm branches shelter the pathways. All around are the butterflies. A large one with brown, splotchy wings lands on Frankie’s head. He’s seated on one of…
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Publication Announcement (10/1/19)
Happy to have one of my haiku published in “A Moment’s Longing,” the Haiku Society of America’s Members’ Anthology 2019. In case anyone has trouble seeing the photo: winter sun a shallow understanding of the problem “A Moment’s Longing” p. 65, HSA Members’ Anthology 2019, Tayna McDonald, Editor Thank you, Tayna McDonald, for all of…
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Impromptu Pilgrimage: Marion Shrine (my latest .@ImageCurve #haibun)
The Stations of the Cross lead us to Lady Park. There, refurbished statues, on new pedestals that depict the Joyful, Sorrowful and Glorious mysteries of the Rosary, line a path. At the end of the path, a 48-foot-tall, 6.5-ton Black Madonna stands in the center of the park. A bald woman wearing a visor cap…
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Nihilistic Games: a solo #renga #quadrille
laying asphalt a long and winding road toward eruption With all the lack of care consumerists can muster skyward plumes subterranean ash falls along our path But what do we care when there’s so much more to make our own last lava flow extinction for dVerse Poets’ Quadrille Monday #88 (pubtended by Linda Lee Lyberg).…
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#SilentSunday (9/22/19)
A rest from #haiku See you tomorrow!
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Four Days After Smuggs: my latest .@ImageCurve #haibun
Monday. The Orthodontist’s examination room exhibits college banners. Including Binghamton University—SUNY Binghamton—my Alma Mater. mirror to his mouth a view of his overbite Tuesday. The images from Guardians of the Galaxy float off a three-story screen. They’re so close that we can touch them. Even the flying ships and fighting aliens. IMAX premier the darkened…
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Last Stand: a #tankaprose
A clear sky, with all the radiant sunlight the lawn and leaves can imbibe, and more. A soft breeze that just sets the chimes’ melody with a whisper of song. The cicadas and grasshoppers, along with the non-migratory birds, carry on their own harmony. Not a hint of humidity. Forecasters talk of temperatures reaching the…
Frank J. Tassone 