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Showing posts with label Weekly Scribblings. Show all posts
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Tuesday, July 13, 2021

An American Sentence for Issa

Haiku nights: going to bed with Issa again; he’s wintering too.





Notes:

I'm reading this book (pictured) in bed every night lately; at present looking at his winter haiku – while it's winter for me too just now, here in the Southern Hemisphere.


Written for Weekly Scribblings #78 at Poets and Storytellers United, where Magaly invites us to choose one of several micro-forms.

 

Ironic, perhaps, that I didn't choose a haiku to reference Issa, one of the great haiku masters. But then, this piece is more senryu than haiku – and an American sentence can be either ... or neither.

 

[Is a poem actually working when the explanations are longer than it?]

 


Monday, August 31, 2020

After we've gone ...

After we’ve gone  
(I like to think)
Earth will at last
rest ...
and recover.


For Weekly Scribblings #35: Rest at Poets and Storytellers United.