Frank J. Tassone

Tag: poetry

  • Spent Lives: a #Tanka-Prose

    Playing Rock-Paper-Scissor to see which of us would drive the rent-a-car. After a flight to Denver from New York, during which we drank Heineken after Heinekan. Driving over switchbacks through the Rockies. At night. With an squeaky-breaked 18-wheeler behind us. Getting knocked into the frigid Animus River in level-5 rapids during our first white-water-rafting experience.…

  • My Daily #Haiku (8/16/20)

    8/16/20: train still waiting“on a downtown train…”rainfall #haiku #micropoetry #poetry

  • First Slam: an .@ImageCurve #Haibun

    “Frank, are you ready?” “Yes.” “Give it up for Frank!” Applause. Kelly yells, “alright, Frank!” I walk up the aisle to the stage. Face the audience of fellow poets and slammers; six judges; Bill, his wife, Jan, and Mira. Rachel and Tiff attend the admission table, shadowed by the stage lights behind me. I begin:…

  • “summer meadow…” a #tanka (8/14/20)

    8/14/20: prompt-free summer meadow still haunted by the weeds of unfinished business yet another leaf trembles in another passing breeze #tanka #micropoetry #poetry

  • My Daily #Haiku (8/14/20)

    8/14/20: bucket retirementthe bucket listgrows #haiku #senryu #micropoetry #poetry

  • An Inaugural Sail

    The wind fills the sails. The sleek, fiberglass hull slices through Levitt Bay water. A soft woosh of a wake, as I speed along in a sunfish. The tiller in one hand, the line to the sail in another, as I adjust course. The utter joy of my first time sailing. A pleasure I haven’t…

  • “hard breathing …” a #tanka (8/11/20)

    8/11/20: #71 PROMPT climbing mountains hard breathing at the rock scramble before the summit oh, but the reward: those stunning views! #tanka #micropoetry #poetry

  • An Inquiry on Biblical Gardens: a #Quadrille #haibun

    Why a garden? A strange place for a fall from grace, no? An equally unusual locale for a rise to renewed grace, too, right? Then again, is a garden not where petals fall and seeds sprout again? perennials a hummingbird flies to each one for dVerse Poets’ How Does Your Garden Grow? dVerse Quadrille (guest-pubtended by…