Frank J. Tassone

Tag: poetry

  • Peace: a #TankaProse

    A still pond. Canopies of maple, oak, white birch and pine reflect without blemish across it. Then the first drop falls. Ripples radiate out. More drops; more ripples, overlapping each other. The perfect reflection becomes a wavering array of verdant images twisted on an ever-trembling membrane. Soon, a blurry, raincloud gray is all the pond…

  • My Daily #Haiku (5/18/19)

    5/18/19: tarot cards harvest moon a tarot card reading she fails to finish #haiku #micropoetry #poetry

  • 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.…

  • My Daily #Haiku (5/17/19)

    5/17/19: seaweed dragon roll … seaweed saladleft on the side #haiku #senryu #micropoetry #poetry

  • A Quart-milk Container Bird Enthusiast

    It is a pretty bird. An Arts and Crafts instructor at Woodland camp showed us how to make them out of quart-milk containers. She dips papier mache wrapping into different colored dyes to make the foliage. Then she wraps the papier mache around the container. She walks around the paint-splattered tables in the cavernous, beige-painted…

  • “Sunrise…” a #tanka (5/17/19)

    5/17/19: pink hills sunrise the salmon tint of the Tallman hills how beautifully they recede in my rearview mirror #tanka #micropoetry #poetry

  • “Mesa Verde…” a #tanka (5/16/19)

    5:16/19: mesa Mesa Verde cliff dwellings aligned to the stars how much we all lost to the conquistadors #tanka #micropoetry #poetry

  • 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…