Thursday, December 13, 2007
I met a man once, for three years. I never knew how much of a Godman he was
http://www.sivananda.dls.org.za/pictures/gurukripa%20bld.jpg POEM to Africa's Hindu Saint I resisted his messages, but loved his charity I listened but my heart was in America He shunned publicity, gave away land Millions of Rands to build schools, medical centers, and work-training centers in the...
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Sunday, November 25, 2007
Summary of what Emily means to me (poem, I think)
What the Dickinson! Ah, Emily! Of Amherst I have none Only an avarice for words: wisdom wrapped in insect wings.
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Saturday, November 24, 2007
Emily Dickinson inspired this one, plus a bonus for the holiday weekend
EMILY YET AGAIN Death is a magical door you opened fearlessly again and yet again how else could you have walked through mine! ---------------- Lincoln’s Birthday 2007 (In syllables imitating Emily Dickinson) I While the music played, my sons died - Baritones lifted me in song My daughters took root...
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Thursday, March 22, 2007
Maniok in Afrikaans, SINGKONG on BashaMalay, Macaxeira in Portuguese
and maracheeni in Malyalam. Great food for anti-inflammatory uses, low cholesterol, helps with joint and bone aches. Try deep fried, but only in moderate platefuls of snacks. (Fufu of Nigeria is ground from the same YUCA plant roots)....
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Sunday, September 17, 2006
Theme is "sun flowers" not SUNFLOWERS, if you get my drift.Where's SWFTFOX?
sun imitators daisy, aster, dandelions circles, petals, light purple aster WHITE MUM yellow daisy -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- can U tell the differences?See article below comparing daisies,fleabane,aster &...
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Thursday, September 14, 2006
There's no lie in LiLiES of pond, stream & lake (haiku/senryu)For Daves etc
circle of colors eddying to lily core earth -- water -- ether SENRYU: eyes click thrice open file lily colors and shapes my novice art lies
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Sunday, July 23, 2006
Walt Whitman is more apropo for the world situation today-Poems-MUST READ
I wrote a poem last summer through Winter summarizing the riots in France (Paris) and the deaths of Betty Friedan, Rosa Parks,Coretta Scott King...I added in comments for my haiku. But after Whitman, it follows: I Sit and Look Out Poem lyrics of I Sit And Look Out by Walt Whitman. I sit and look out...
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Saturday, July 22, 2006
Spider senryu (It visited wedding today).We stayed dry despite rain.Miracle
I Sit and Look Out Poem lyrics of I Sit And Look Out by Walt Whitman. I sit and look out upon all the sorrows of the world, and upon all oppression and shame; I hear secret convulsive sobs from young men, at anguish with themselves, remorseful after deeds done; I see, in low life, the mother misused...
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Thursday, July 20, 2006
Guidelines,contest info&winners 4 haiku lovers - Haiku Society of America:
The one useful site for information and contests for haiku and senryu is the Haiku Society of America: www.hsa-haiku.org Here are some winning entries. Note that those copied below are modern haiku and senryu. Therefore, they have fewer than 17 syllables. Frogpond XXIV:1 John O’Connor (NZ) dusk— up...
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Tuesday, July 18, 2006
Modified senryu; just in this haiku form, ZEN doesn't use "God" just NaturE
dark clouds assemble ready for battle with us whose tears will burst first? (c) Ypun Deo
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