Frank J. Tassone

Tag: poetry

  • “lingering taste…” a #tanka (5/5/21)

    5/5/21: unprompted lingering tasteof homemade fajitas thisCinco de Mayoafter a day of raina soft evening breeze #tanka #micropoetry #poetry

  • My Daily #Haiku (5/5/21)

    5/5/21: boardwalk Cinco de Mayothe patter of fresh rainon the boardwalk #haiku #micropoetry #poetry

  • My Daily #Haiku (5/4/21)

    5/4/21: driftwood storm surge…driftwood drawn inon the tide #haiku #micropoetry #poetry

  • Scattered and Gathered

    Too many voices. Too few of them my own. The drumbeat noise of Twitter and its ever-inciting FOMA. The incessant cymbols of Google-Classroom work, with its screens of tiled avatars and silent answers. The base-boom of volunteering demands. Somehow the path of poetry ended under windblown sand. I stumbled into the sandstorm, fingers clenching the…

  • Presence: A #Haibun (4/26/2021): Day 26 of #NationalPoetryMonth

    Fresh crabapple leaves flutter. The mantle clock tick-tocks, tick-tocks. Frank’s voice carries from beyond his closed door. I walk to the couch, grab a pillow, and return to my seat at the dining room table. The Syracuse windchimes sound off. A roar soft as a sated lion: the new windchimes ring out. Branches sway like…

  • My Daily #Haiku (4/18 – 4/20)

    4/18/21: trove a treasure troveof sunlit graniteMinnewaska 4/19/21: sage she smudgesthe house againwhite sage 4/20/21: winkle what it takesto winkle out justicemagnolia bloom #haiku #micropoetry #poetry #NationalPoetryMonth #NationalPoetryMonth2021 #NaPoWriMo #GloPoWriMo #napowrimo2021 #glopowrimo2021

  • A Correspondence II: a #haibun (4/12/21): Day 12 of #NationalPoetryMonth

    Witness their blood stain the sands, Persian King. See your 200,000+ strong army fall by the scores at Marathon. O Darius, a mere 10,000 Greeks drove your screaming soldiers into the sea. Watch your ambition fail with them, as soon after you lie with your ancestors. twenty-six-point-two the last runner crosses the finish line. How…

  • A Correspondence: a petite #TankaProse (4/11/21) Day 11 of #NationalPoetryMonth

    Would I have the courage to commune with you, Celtic queen? Iceni regis you bloodied Roman legions in Britannia. but when you faced your end tell me, was it worth it? What would be your response if I did? American man did not your people bloody English Regiments? Considering what you gained how would you…