Frank J. Tassone

Tag: poetry

  • My Daily #Haiku

    4/20/20: voices subdued voicessaying “420 blaze it” …#CoronaVirus #haiku #senryu #micropoetry #poetry #NaPoWriMo2020 #GloPoWriMo2020

  • Publication Alert! (4/20/20)

    I’m pleased to have the following two haiku appear in The Haifu Foundations’s EarthRise Rolling Haiku Collaboration 2020: Thank you, Jim Kacian! Congratulations, haijin!

  • A clean-up Wike: a #NaPoWriMo2020 / #GloPoWriMo2020 #haibun

    The Long Path trailhead parking lot–filled to capacity. All the lonely people–mostly from New Jersey–have arrived to embrace nature and unleash that howl they’ve pent up all week. In the course of exercising their resolve at this fixture of Harriman State Park, they leave a lot of trash behind. That’s why we’ve come with so…

  • “a week…” a #tanka (4/19/20)

    4/19/20: unprompted a week of gray skies and cold rain shattered by sunlight the hiker wants the outside while the haijin keeps writing #tanka #micropoetry #poetry #NaPoWriMo2020 #GloPoWriMo2020

  • My Daily #Haiku (4/19/20)

    4/19/20: cart soaring Bald eagle …a homeless motherpushes her cart #haiku #micropoetry #poetry #NaPoWriMo2020 #GloPoWriMo2020

  • Novel-Coronal Hope: a #NaPoWriMo2020 / #GloPoWriMo2020 #AmericanSentence #TankaProse

    “…so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” Gandalf, “The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring,” J.R.R. Tolkien We do not face the abyss alone, for the…

  • Coronal Solitude: A #TankaProse

    The numbers rise. New cases. Death rates. Deaths per 1 million. So do the aruguments. “Government doesn’t have the right.” “It’s no worse than the flu.” “The economy must open.” All witnessed through screens: the iPhone, the iPad, the Acer in the office overlooking the street. Where a handful of maples unfurl fresh leaves, while…

  • My Daily #Haiku (4/18/20)

    4/18/20: branch spring gustbending another brancha leaping squirrel #haiku #micropoetry #poetry #NaPoWriMo2020 #GloPoWriMo2020