Tag: haiku
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* Delta Ponds: a lyric sequence
Towards the end of our trip this week, we stopped by Delta Ponds, a patch of wetlands near where Ani’s family lives. The lyric sequence below, inspired by the sights and sounds of the walk, is shared as a sort of thank you to the travel gods. Delta Ponds – Jose Angel Araguz Dragonflies…
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* new tanka up at A Hundred Gourds
Just a quick post to announce the latest edition of A Hundred Gourds – a quarterly journal of haiku, tanka, haiga, haibun & renku – including fine work from around the world. Read my own contribution here. This specific tanka is about my friend Dennis Flinn (who I wrote about previously here). He had a…
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* David Ignatow in My Own House
Reading the following poem I realized that it would be interesting – to me, to you, to who? – to periodically share a snapshot of what my writing desk looks like. With that in mind, here is what it looks like this week: This view is from the surface level – what the page would…
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* from the car: verses & such
As we made our way from O to O – Oregon to Ohio – I found myself writing little lyrics along the way. I also wrote snippets of our conversation, bits that made me laugh or that meant something to me. I consider it a sort of travel journal/daybook – one strictly written in the…
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* some words from Basho & the friday influence
This week The Friday Influence introduces the “some words from” feature – on the last Friday of each month expect a quote or two from poets that have and are presently influencing my work or simply blowing my mind. Our first feature: haiku poet Matsuo Basho! Here he is talking about the idea of sabi:…
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* anagram haiku
I recently finished filling up a notebook. Before shutting it away for a year or more, I thought I would share a few small things from it. These short lyrics arrived out of something I call anagram haiku. Please enjoy and perhaps try a few yourself. *** the gods run like dogs through our lives…
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* Williams’ other plum poem & the friday influence
To a poor old woman – William Carlos Williams munching a plum on the street a paper bag of them in her hand They taste good to her They taste good to her. They taste good to her You can see it by the way she gives herself to the one half sucked out…
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* translation 2/3 on the friday influence
(from Greguerias – Ramon Gomez de la Serna) * Curious about the earth, the sky keeps opening and closing the clouds. * The hour differs throughout the stars. In some it is yesterday, in others today, and in others centuries have passed. * He had a keyring so dusty, he looked like a fisherman of…
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