Frank J. Tassone

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  • #SilentSaturday (5/25/19)

    A special rest from #haiku today. I’ll return tomorrow with another #haikai challenge. See you then!

  • Smuggs ’14 Chronicle, Day 6: July 30, 2014, continued: my latest .@ImageCurve #haibun

    As the afternoon closes on four, the earlier clouds break apart. The brightest sunlight since Saturday bathes the west end of the deck. Tamarack leaves rustle in a passing breeze. Soon, Frankie will return. Then we’ll visit the farmers’ market in Jeffersonville before the family bonfire tonight. sedentary leisure tomatoes ripening on the rail We…

  • A “photo-shopped” #haiku (5/19/19)

    even an old manhas New Year’s eyes…cherry blossoms © Kobayashi Issa (Tr. David G. Lanoue) an old man’s New Year’s eyes cherry blossoms for Carpe Diem Weekend Meditation #85 Photo-shopping Haiku (2) Cherry Blossom

  • Smuggs Chronicle ’14: Interlude II: Meditation moment this morning (an .@ImageCurve #Haibun)

    Tightness in my throat. Remembering Mrs. Zengo’s confused disappointment. How hurt those brown eyes in that wrinkly forehead that creased with her frown. How sorry I felt—and unforgiven—until she realized I brought in an egg for another student’s recipe. I had overheard their conversation and mistakenly thought I needed to bring in that hard-boiled egg.…

  • Water’s Canticle

    Do you wonder about me? How I nourish life in one hand and strip it away with the other? How I descend to the lowest places even the most bodhivassatic of you fail to go? How I ascend to the heights that once only the gods dwelt? How do I do it? I yield, and…

  • A Misplaced Step

    All it takes is one slip to end this trip to these tips in tragedy. apex a view interrupted by sudden wind for RonovanWrites #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge #253 Slip&Tip and Mindlove misery’s Menagerie’s Heeding Haiku With Chèvrefeuille, May 8th 2019 an experiment … one-bun

  • A Memorial Mother’s Day

    Rainfall. Temperatures plummet below fifty degrees F, from almost seventy yesterday. Every so often, leaves rustle and the wind chimes sound. We recover from hosting thirty of our family for Frankie’s confirmation barbeque. A quiet day resting at home is the Mother’s Day present Mira wants most this year. wet fire pit the last ambers…

  • A Special #SilentSaturday (5/11/19)

    Today, our son received confirmation. We’re hosting the family afterward, so I’m taking a well-needed rest from #haiku. I, and the #haikai challenge, will return on Sunday. See you then!