Sample Poems
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Saturday, October 10th, 2009Yesterday, as part of the #haikuchallenge on Twitter, I wrote this piece: Red sun falls behind as I flee the black castle. Church in the distance. But I’m not entirely satisfied with that last line. The first two have such stark visual impact, and then the last just flatly states “church.” Originally I had been [...]
Next Up: Soji
Tuesday, June 30th, 2009While Twitter is often lampooned as empty chatter, I’m finding it an increasingly rich source of news and information. (Just look at what it has done in terms of revealing the aftermath of Iran’s election.) //
What Could Be Verse?
Monday, June 15th, 2009The first time that I ever wrote a sonnet, ’Twas filled with grand Romantic affectation, As tho’ perhaps Shelley or Keats had done it And I had merely taken poor dictation. And so I tried to write free verse instead, Which left me feeling somewhat loose and sore As if, instead of a four-poster bed, [...]
Elsewhere
Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009There was an age in which this brown field, the brown, veiny trees beyond, the wind above like unbreaking surf, could lure my feet across the spongy soil its brittle, weedy carpet, into the stippled shadows where the fellowship of empty branches could brim me over with shimmering melancholy. However, I am expected elsewhere, and [...]
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