Frank J. Tassone

A Bout with a Turmultuous Anxiety Rising, confronted with the realization of another day... snarling carnivore clamping down the terror breaking out Seated, facing the light, a voice like my own saying, "Feel..." unknotting this inside tsunami breathing Calming, the last hurricaned heartbeat settling... enemy mine the call to again ride the Dragon Melissa Lemay calls on us to write pivotal moment poems over at dVerse for Tuesday Poetics. The Pub is open! Come join us!

A Bout with a Turmultuous Anxiety

Rising, confronted with the realization of another day... snarling carnivore clamping down the terror breaking out Seated, facing the light, a voice like my own saying, "Feel..." unknotting this inside tsunami breathing Calming, the last hurricaned heartbeat…

#Haiku Happenings #3: “Poem for my father” by Ellen Grace Olinger

#Haiku Happenings #2: “savouring relief (haibun)” by Cheryl Lynn Roberts

#Haiku Happenings #1 (11/11/25): “Dreaming, Double Tanka” by Colleen Chesebro

#Haiku (10/30/25) 10/30/25: yidaki playing a yadaki breathing matters #haiku #micropoetry #poetry

#Haiku (10/30/25)

#Haiku Happenings #3: “Some Carving To Do” by Steve Mitchell

#Haiku Happenings #2: “Haiku North America Conference – San Francisco – 2025” presented by Echidna Tracks

#Haiku Happenings #1 (10/30/25): “October Poems” by Ellen Grace Olinger

Thank you!

Samhainic Isolation The ravens come. An oak tree filled with autumnal-colored, yet shriveling, leaves stands on a stretch of fading grass. The birds perch on its outstretched limbs and on the ground before it. The Morrigan follows her flock. Pale, black haired, a carnivorous smile across her gaunt, cadaverous visage, she spreads her right arm to her corvids. Their cawing draw forth memories: The shared laughter on beer-stained couches with college friends.

Come experience "Samhainic Isolation" my #haibun for #dVersePoetsPub #HaibunMonday.

The Pub is open! Come join us!

“The encroaching dark…” a #Tanka (10/27/25) 10/27/25: remain the encroaching dark as my tightening breath shortens, & shortens after such a life only ruins remain #tanka#micropoetry#poetry

"The encroaching dark..." a #Tanka (10/27/25) #micropoetry #photo #poetry

#Haiku Happenings #6: “Haiku” by Madhuri Pillai

#Haiku Happenings #5: “Daily Haiku Special, Oct. 27, 2025…” by Charlotte Digregorio

#Haiku Happenings #4: “Today’s Haiku (October 27, 2025)” by Fay Aoyagi

#Haiku (10/27/25)

10/27/25: variation losing time another variation of fear #haiku #micropoetry #poetry

#Haiku Happenings #3: “And Eating Snack Mix” by Steve Mitchell

#Haiku Happenings #2: “lying in my bed…” by Mark M. Redfearn

#Haiku Happenings #1 (10/27/25): Christina Chin and Mystic Poet’s #Renga

9/24/25: unprompted

mountaintop view
beyond yellow & red leaves
chirping grasshoppers

#haiku #micropoetry #poetry

Where Did They Go? Where did the years go? Where is the young teacher struggling to touch the jaded lives of teens long cynical? & where is the student who says "I like the way you teach..." faded grass the first cool wind of August Where did the years go? Where is our toddler scampering through the house whose yard needs refurbishment? & where are all those younger relatives…

Where Did They Go?

Where did the years go? Where is the young teacher struggling to touch the jaded lives of teens long cynical? & where is the student who says "I like the way you teach..." faded grass the first cool wind of August Where did the years go? Where is our toddler scampering through…

#Haiku Happenings #6: “Today’s Haiku (August 21, 2025)” by Fay Aoyagi

HH #6: Fay Aoyagi's Today's Haiku features Misaki Tayu!

#Haiku Happenings #5: “Onion skin, or: A rengay” presented by Melissa Lemay

#Haiku Happenings #4: “The Cicada’s Cry” by Neena Singh

HH #4: Neena Singh's latest #haiku appears in The Cicada's Cry!

#Haiku (8/21/25) 8/21/25: gold summer heat “more precious than gold”... water #haiku #micropoetry #poetry

#Haiku (8/21/25) #micropoetry #poetry #photo

#Haiku Happenings #3: “Daily Haiku Special, Aug. 21, 2025…” by Charlotte Digregorio

HH #3: Charlotte Digregorio's Daily Haiku special features Barrie Levine and Bernadette O'Reilly!

#Haiku Happenings #2: “not yet fall…” by Steve Mitchell

#Haiku Happenings #1 (8/21/25): “Chewers Maticadores…” by Christina Chin

HH #1 (8/21/25): Christina Chin and Jerome Berglund's latest #Renga appears in Chewers Masticadores!

Publication Alert (8/16/25) I am delighted to appear in the latest edition of Heterodox Haiku: Contrarians (p.43). Thank you, Jerome William Berglund, for including my #haiku in your extraordinary addition. So honored to appear with so many noted haijin! Congratulations to all of you featured in this edition!

#Publication Alert! Delighted to have a new #haiku published! #poetry #photo

#Haiku Happenings #1 (8/16/25): “Daily Haiku Special, August 15, 2025)…” by Charlotte Digregorio

HH #1 (8/16/25): Charlotte Digregorio's Daily Haiku Special features Jim Kacian and Michael Henry Lee!

Silvering

Teen Wolf, the series pilot. A lone lycanthrope flees a party of human hunters. Their grim-faced leader stares ahead, his cold blue eyes revealing not a wisp of weakness. & why not? He comes from a long line of Argents—that bane of werewolves everywhere. that merciless skybound silver…