Frank J. Tassone

Tag: tanka

  • A Vision of the Future: a #tanka -bun

        sunset a handful of years left in my career   journeys across American roads, rivers of Europe far from the long-ago rooms filled with late-night screams and tears     twilight holding hands we greet the stars     Photo by Peter Oswald on Unsplash   for Poets United–Midweek Motif–vision Real Toads’ Micro Poetry–Long-Ago Rooms #GloPoWriMo2018…

  • My New York: A City Love Affair

      I could write about the first time I saw New York City. How the skyline of Manhattan drew the wows only a child utters at their sight. How the Circle line showed me the Empire State Building, the Chrysler Tower, the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center–all in their lit glory.   I…

  • #Haikai Challenge #28 (4/7/18): first [cherry] blossoms (hatsu hana)…#haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka #haiga #renga

      The Spring and Winter continue to dual in the Northeastern United States, haijin! Snow fell Thursday morning and melted away by Thursday afternoon. Nevertheless, the cold fights a rearguard action against the march of warmth.   Congratulations to last week’s contributors:   Haikai Challenge Participants  1. Jane Dougherty 2. Jules 3. Xenia Tran 4.…

  • A Natural History of My Holy Places

    Photo by Matt Cannon on Unsplash   The enclosed portch of our basement apartment in a three-family house. A tricycle turned upside-down. The hum of its spinning wheels, opening me…    shimmering sunlight across a rippling lake   The wooded path opens to a green hill with memorial stones. A paved road passes a waterfall, its roar reminding…

  • #Tanka Tuesday #2: My Lady’s Highlights

      My Lady’s highlights in the flickering light of freshly lit candles tossed sheets illuminated by an Easter Full Sap Moon     for Kiwinana’s #Weekly Tanka Prompt #Poetry Challenge – Week 91 – Lady & Highlights    

  • #Tanka Tuesday (4/3/18/): Son Rise–a #Writephoto tanka

      Son Rise Keeping faith with you for two millenia despite our legion of sins our oceans of tears   for COLLEEN’S 2018 #TANKA TUESDAY #POETRY CHALLENGE NO. 78, GROW & HONOR, #SNYNONYMSONLY Sue Vincent’s #writephoto With Real Toads’ Tuesday Platform: napowrimo style   #GloPoWriMo2018 / #NaPoWriMo2018 3/30          

  • #Haikai Challenge #27 (3/31/18): White Lily or Azalea (tsutsuji) #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka #haiga #renga

    courtesy of  Walsingham | National Shrine of Our Lady at Walsingham     Spring continues to emerge, Haijin! The growing warmth of the season has melted all but the most stubborn patches of snow. Here’s to those of you that joined in the spirit of transformation of this season by sharing in last week’s challenge, Triduum.…

  • Spring Suite: an .@ImageCurve #haibun collection

      Prologue   Spring morning a moment of grace in the sun winter-hardened soil yields the season’s first chutes     Spring Suite, Part I: At the NJ Botanical Gardens     The twin rows of apple trees define a path down the center of Skyland Manor’s Great Lawn. They won’t blossom until May. Many…