http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/laydi_daydi10/some new, some returning after being works-in-progress Plus, on occasion, other poetry --or poultry--- I have written and failed to throw out with the trash. SHALOM Where haiku are usually connected with Nature or seasons, senryu refer to human emotions, themes, characteristics.hourly12000-01-01T12:00+00:00http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/laydi_daydi10/508606http://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...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/laydi_daydi10/504843What the Dickinson! Ah, Emily! Of Amherst I have none Only an avarice for words: wisdom wrapped in insect wings.http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/laydi_daydi10/504613EMILY 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...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/laydi_daydi10/451345and 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)....http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/laydi_daydi10/406872sun 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...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/laydi_daydi10/406204circle of colors eddying to lily core earth -- water -- ether SENRYU: eyes click thrice open file lily colors and shapes my novice art lieshttp://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/laydi_daydi10/390606I 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...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/laydi_daydi10/390401I 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...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/laydi_daydi10/389778The 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—...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/laydi_daydi10/389306dark clouds assemble ready for battle with us whose tears will burst first? (c) Ypun Deo