Frank J. Tassone

Tag: tanka

  • #Haikai Challenge #30 (4/21/18): Earth… #Haiku #Senryu #Haibun #Tanka #Haiga #Renga

    No sooner did we celebrate warmth than another cold spell enveloped the Northeast! Nevertheless, Haijin, you bore witness to the inevitable turn toward spring (at least in the northern hemisphere). Congratulations to last week’s contributors:   Haikai Challenge Participants  1. Ken Gierke / rivrvlogr 2. lynn__ 3. Dwight L. Roth 4. Jules 5. Jane Dougherty…

  • A #Waythrough Wednesday #Tanka (4/18/18)

    you sleep beside me after another hard day counseling toddlers I count every one of your short, deep breaths

  • Here. Now. Just This. A #haibun in the moment

    Photo by Daniel Weiss on Unsplash   One robin sings in spite of nightfall. A distant hum of some appliance drones outside. The stairs creak under Mira’s footsteps. The ledge of the Wall-unit desk has fewer chakas on them. My own tired eyes and enshadowed crows’ feet gaze at me from the mirror enclosed by the unit. A…

  • #Haikai Challenge #29 (4/14/18): warm (atataka)…#haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka #haiga #renga

      Well, haijin, you got your bloom on for the first Cherry Blossoms!   Congratulations, participants! Haikai Challenge Participants  1. Ken Gierke / rivrvlogr 2. Jane Dougherty 3. Dwight L. Roth 4. Jules 5. Jules 2 6. Xenia Tran 7. Xenia Tran (2) 8. Linda Lee Lyberg 9. Merril D. Smith 10. Janice (Ontheland) 11.…

  • 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…