Frank J. Tassone

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  • Stunning Contrasts on a Summer Day: A #TankaTuesday #TankaProse

      a cool summer breeze a time to sow or to reap every moment I lay my burden down to pick it up again   The last taste of burgundy rests in the well of a used wine glass. She strolls the garden after rinsing something in the sink. Maple leaves flutter in the woosh…

  • Disgruntled Errand Run: a #FreestyleFriday .@ImageCurve #haibun

      Three library books with me that I don’t intend to return. Three at home that I intended to return. Credit accrued and surrendered just to return a viola. Nearly $100 for two baseball mitts. A call for a test script that comes after I walk in the front door.   And I disliked all…

  • Solstice Sequence: A #haiku couplet

        solstice evening … the neighbor’s drumming continues   evening birdsongs … the daylit sky still in view     for dVerse Poets MTB — Couplets for the Solstice (pubtended by Frank Hubeny). Frank asks us to write a couplet for the solstice. I wrote a sequence of two one-line haiku, whose last words…

  • Of Medicinal Malice and Momentary Humanity: A #TankaTuesday (on a Wednesday) #TankaProse

    Children wait at the Paso Del Norte Port of Entry, in the US-Mexico border in Chihuahua State, Mexico on June 20, 2018. Herika Martinez/AFP/Getty Images   Somewhere in south Texas, a child cries. Uniformed men pulled him from his screaming mother’s arms, and brought him far away. He sits by a cot, surrounded by other…

  • #Haikai Challenge #38 (6/17/18): Solstice (Geshi) #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka #haiga #renga

    Photo by Jason Leung on Unsplash   The Few. The Brave. The Haijin that faced the FIFA challenge! 😉   Congratulations, contributors!   Haikai Challenge Participants 1. Reena Saxena 2. Merril D. Smith 3. Janice (Ontheland) 4. Dwight L. Roth 5. Jules @ Strands 6. Revived Writer 7. Floating Rabbit Powered by… Mister Linky’s Magical Widgets.   Ultreya!…

  • First Taste of Summer: My latest .@ImageCurve #haibun

      The Torne Valley Vineyard occupies a former estate that overlooks the Ramapo River. It offers lunch and outdoor seating. We’ve tried to dine there since Father’s Day. Now, we sit at a table for six, just off the tented patio. The band Hip Replacements—whose members’ average age exemplifies the tongue-in-cheek name—play “California Dreaming.” Several…

  • The Use of Freedom

      A Bald Eagle circles high above the fjord. Sunlight shines intermitently between gathering clouds. Far below, an osprey snatches an unwary fish from the rushing waters of the fjord. It brings its quarry to the shore. The eagle dives toward it in breath-catching speed. A short struggle ends with the osprey in flight–without the…

  • #SilentSunday (6/10/18)

    A rest from #haiku See you tomorrow!