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“Give me six lines written by the most honorable of men, and I will find an excuse in them to hang him.”

—Cardinal Richelieu (1585-1642)

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Poetic Forms: Haiku, Senryu, Tanka, and Lunes

Friday, May 29th, 2009

counting sylllables mentioning cherry blossoms this is not haiku (from Zen Rampage, back cover) Haiku Everyone knows what a haiku is, right? A poem in three lines, with seventeen syllables divided five/seven/five. //

For My Birthday

Tuesday, May 19th, 2009

For my birthday, God gave me a cake. He frosted it with filigrees of color from countless vermilion sunsets shining on sapphire seas and ochroid sands. Inside, a feast of worms. He set it on a plate decorated with images of doves and dying children. “Make a wish,” He said, with a smile                  of expectation. [...]

JENNY

Monday, May 18th, 2009

If the sun were a bowling ball, I have read, the earth would be a peppercorn somewhere down the hill across the street. //

Laundry Day

Sunday, May 17th, 2009

sky vague gray as dryer lint //

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