POETRY - See also haiku
Why do I write poetry? I love to play with words, paring them down to essential, vivid language. Creativity is soul-enlarging, and making poems is one of the main ways I create. It also gives me a way to flag the gateways, curves, bridges and milestones on my journey.
“Have You Made Friends with Words?”
Have you made friends with words
and found --on certain days, in special ways-
words will sing and fly and play with you?Do you know words may call to you --like companionable birds-
wild, but fluttering round your inner garden,
chirping out melodic and enticing runes?O come with me and try their lettered tunes! . . .
Samples of several poems:
In recent years I have cultivated a haiku habit! I love shaping many forms of poetry, but I discovered that when I am biking or walking, and can’t write down the words, my brain can manage to remember the 17 syllables involved in a haiku. So I compose haiku more often than other forms of poetry . . . This ancient Japanese literary form has many other “addicts”, although...
To convey one’s mood
in seventeen syllables
is very diffic
- by John Cooper Clark [born 1950]
Check out www.haikucanada.org
Also Doctoral Dissertations in Haiku!
Below are an assortment of my own haiku, paired with my own collages or nature photographs I have taken.
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HAIKU FOR TURBULENT TIMES Kneel at the altar
of now; |
SPRING IN OHIO black branched redbud bursts |
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SNOW LABYRINTHS Labyrinth walker, |
IN FOGBOUND WOODS Pale beech leaves cling still, |
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MAY IN NORTHERN ONTARIO No daffodils -- |
EARLY MAY IN ONTARIO live snowflakes of spring |
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CREATIVITY Creativity: |
Where are you on your own spiral journey?
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