Tag Archives: thought for day
I thought I’d be carefree…
After the poetry marathon, after writing one poem a day during the month of July, I thought I’d feel a sudden sort of relief. From the constant preoccupation to produce, from guiltily stealing time away from my family to indulge … Continue reading
Haiku of the week 11/12/14 – 11/27/14
I have always had a lot of ambivalence about the thanksgiving holiday. I love the food and connection to family…but the wrongheaded myth of its origin has always been troubling to me, and I am astounded that it is perpetuated … Continue reading
Haiku for the weeks: 10/30/14 – 11/11/14
10/30/14 skim-coated sunset delicately tints soft air, sweeping dusk sighways This haiku was the first one after a bit of a break/fall off the wagon. I seem to keep needing to relearn to slow down in my day to day … Continue reading
Haiku for the week 09/06/14 – 09/19/14
The quiet presence of mind needed to haiku has been elusive lately…my poetry, like my mind, is mostly scattered, drawn to shiny bits in the moment instead of focused and piercing into the new meanings I am hungry for. so, … Continue reading
Haiku for the week: 08/29/14 – 09-/05/14
Once we walked into September, its sudden portal gave us autumnal mildness we couldn’t quite trust. We wander as if we’d always worn layers, furtively comparing our ruse with our neighbors’ purposeful strides down enleafed sidewalks. The heat bugs (whose … Continue reading
Haiku of the weeks 08/16/14 – 08/28/14
These past two weeks (and their resulting poems) have been full of promise and fear; sort of like a caffeine overdose – jittery exciting and wearisome all at once. Instantaneous furious flurries of anticipation flushed with hope are hummingbirds that … Continue reading
Haiku for the week: 07/18/14 – 07/25/14
So the good news is that I’ll get to keep my leg… I really feel like I need that kind of melodrama to maintain my perspective in this summer’s ongoing saga between my left knee and me. (spoiler alert, It … Continue reading
Haiku for the week: 07/11/14 – 07/17/14
The grasshoppers are voracious…I’m not sure what makes them so persistent or ubiquitous, but there you have it. The week in haiku began and ended with the boogers chewing up leaves, irritating me and my happy garden hopes…upon reflection, this … Continue reading
Haiku of the week: 07/04/14 – 07/10/14
I have some new worlds for you to visit. These poems are adventuresome and discordant collages for you to try on… 07/04/14 history of an abandoned dependence teal-arced window eyes x-raying my smuggling salty-fingered stance; sand-blasting graveyards tended by invasive … Continue reading
Haiku for the week: 06/26/14 – 07/03/14
Rocket’s red glares are pounding at my temples in our neighborhood the day before the 4th. While I love the smell and smokey afterbirth of firework displays, I dislike hearing the random noisy fists and starts leading up to the … Continue reading
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