Frank J. Tassone

Tag: tanka

  • #Haikai Challenge #71 (2/2/19): Still Cold (yokan) #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka #haiga #renga

    Thank you, haijin, for all of your moving tributes to Rachel Sutcliffe. Congratulations to last week’s contributors: Haikai Challenge Participants 1. Ken Gierke / rivrvlogr2. Dwight L. Roth3. The Dark Netizen4. Jane Dougherty5. Petru J Viljoen 6. Isabel Caves7. Jules @ Strands8. Hifsa Ashraf 9. Janice10. Xenia Tran 11. Revived Writer12. Ken Gierke / rivrvlogr13.…

  • “Doe grazing in snow…” #tanka (1/31/19)

    1/31/19: February Doe grazing in snow … day before February under a deep freeze hours to go before a hot bowl of chili! #tanka #haiku #poetry

  • Snow Follies: a #TBT #TankaProse

    nightime snowfall the lethargic movement of snowplows Where will I park tomorrow with glaciers filling the lot? A fine layer of snow covers the driveway. Frank and I would have shovelled it clear, but the forecast calls for more tomorrow. Why waste the effort? And yet, come tomorrow, I will walk across the iced-over snow.…

  • The Heart of Majesty

    Not the tallest. Nor the steepest. But what other mountain so captures the culture of a people? What other embodies a nation? Or inspires so many poets’ tears? cold carp the nevermelting snow atop Mt. Fuji Will I ever see you face to face? for dVerse Poets’ Quadrille #72 (pubtended by Mish). She invites us…

  • “Hudson breeze…” a #tanka (1/28/19)

    1/28/19: cats Hudson breeze goosebumps at the high note of “Memories” just another star-struck child seeing “Cats.” #tanka #micropoetry #poetry

  • #Haikai Challenge #70 (1/26/19): Rachel Sutcliffe tribute #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka #haiga #renga

    Thank you, haijin, for raising your voices for equality. Congratulations to last week’s contributors: Haikai Challenge Participants 1. Jane Dougherty2. The Dark Netizen3. Dwight L. Roth4. Ken Gierke / rivrvlogr 5. Revived Writer6. Merril D. Smith7. Janice 8. Jules @ Strands 9. Helene Vaillant10. Reena Saxena Powered by… Mister Linky’s Magical Widgets. Moving forward. We…

  • The Perils of Letting Go: a #tankaprose

    1/25/19: Gerry Muse #140–Letting go The perils of “letting go” “Everything I ever let go had claw marks on it.” I had heard it said in the rooms many times by many people. When I was in therapy for a time, it described well my own conflicts with detachment. I told my therapist. Never imagining…

  • A Lycanthrope’s Confession: A #TankaTuesday #TankaProse (1/22/19)

    Ask your question. Go on. Ask how I could do it. How I could shed my own skin, forsake my species and run with the wolves. Ask how I could rage under a blood moon, an animal’s growl erupting from me like a long-restrained geyser. Are you certain you want the answer? Perhaps you can…