Trees dance in the storm.
With the wind as bandleader,
the rhythm comes in gusts.
In recognition of International Haiku Poetry Day yesterday, I wrote a haiku for the prompt--dance.
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Showing posts with label Haiku. Show all posts
Tuesday, April 18, 2017
Dance Haiku
I am a poet and photographer who likes sports, jazz and art inspired by other art. I served in the U.S. Marine Corps during the early 1970's and was assigned to the Computer Sciences School in Quantico, VA. I have published a chapbook of grief poems, I Keep You with Me. My work also has appeared in publications such as Thorny Locust Magazine, core. zine,The Enigmatist, Veterans' Voices and Kansas Time + Place An Anthology of Heartland Poetry. My visual art pieces combine poetry and photographs, and have been most recently displayed at InterUrban ArtHouse, Johnson County Arts & Heritage Center, Buttonwood Art Space, and The Smalter Gallery.
Tuesday, April 19, 2016
Needles and Flowers
Needles and flowers
create a prickly beauty.
Touch at your own risk.
Do you see beauty in prickly things?
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I am a poet and photographer who likes sports, jazz and art inspired by other art. I served in the U.S. Marine Corps during the early 1970's and was assigned to the Computer Sciences School in Quantico, VA. I have published a chapbook of grief poems, I Keep You with Me. My work also has appeared in publications such as Thorny Locust Magazine, core. zine,The Enigmatist, Veterans' Voices and Kansas Time + Place An Anthology of Heartland Poetry. My visual art pieces combine poetry and photographs, and have been most recently displayed at InterUrban ArtHouse, Johnson County Arts & Heritage Center, Buttonwood Art Space, and The Smalter Gallery.
Thursday, August 30, 2012
Jazz Haiku Ensembles
This is the ninth, and final, week of Khara House's Our Lost Jungle Poetry Form Challenge. Thank you, Khara, for helping us learn about both poetry forms and our own writing.
Being the wonderful teacher that she is, Khara had us review all we had studied during the first eight weeks in order to complete this week's challenge. The final challenge is to create a form of our own.
This year, I have found myself reminding people that haiku is an important segment of jazz poetry. To that end, my form is the jazz haiku ensemble. Following are the guidelines:
1. The subject of the poem will be something related to jazz (person, place or thing) or contain elements of jazz.
2. Each stanza will be haiku and the minimum number of stanzas is two (a jazz haiku duet).
3. I won't hold you to the common 5-7-5 line length, but each haiku may have only 17 syllables.
4. The last stanza must be an American Sentence, which we had to write as part of last week's challenge.
Since August 29 is Charlie Parker's birthday, I wrote the following jazz haiku trio in his honor:
Silky saxophone.
Being the wonderful teacher that she is, Khara had us review all we had studied during the first eight weeks in order to complete this week's challenge. The final challenge is to create a form of our own.
This year, I have found myself reminding people that haiku is an important segment of jazz poetry. To that end, my form is the jazz haiku ensemble. Following are the guidelines:
1. The subject of the poem will be something related to jazz (person, place or thing) or contain elements of jazz.
2. Each stanza will be haiku and the minimum number of stanzas is two (a jazz haiku duet).
3. I won't hold you to the common 5-7-5 line length, but each haiku may have only 17 syllables.
4. The last stanza must be an American Sentence, which we had to write as part of last week's challenge.
Since August 29 is Charlie Parker's birthday, I wrote the following jazz haiku trio in his honor:
Bird’s Song
I hear Bird’s songs play.
He has been gone a long time,
but never left us.
Silky saxophone.
Bird could make it swing or moan.
Made Bebop the rage.
I wish he had been with us longer in body as well as in soul.
I wish he had been with us longer in body as well as in soul.
I am a poet and photographer who likes sports, jazz and art inspired by other art. I served in the U.S. Marine Corps during the early 1970's and was assigned to the Computer Sciences School in Quantico, VA. I have published a chapbook of grief poems, I Keep You with Me. My work also has appeared in publications such as Thorny Locust Magazine, core. zine,The Enigmatist, Veterans' Voices and Kansas Time + Place An Anthology of Heartland Poetry. My visual art pieces combine poetry and photographs, and have been most recently displayed at InterUrban ArtHouse, Johnson County Arts & Heritage Center, Buttonwood Art Space, and The Smalter Gallery.
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
I re-discovered haiku after taking a jazz poetry workshop and found that I enjoy the form. Most of the haiku I have written is related to jazz, but I am starting to use it for other topics. Here are three of those.
Mighty and muddy,
the river exudes power
and elicits peace.
Rivers turnover,
and like neighboring cities,
are revitalized.
Nature demands our
respect, but rewards us by
renewing our souls.
Mighty and muddy,
the river exudes power
and elicits peace.
Rivers turnover,
and like neighboring cities,
are revitalized.
Nature demands our
respect, but rewards us by
renewing our souls.
I am a poet and photographer who likes sports, jazz and art inspired by other art. I served in the U.S. Marine Corps during the early 1970's and was assigned to the Computer Sciences School in Quantico, VA. I have published a chapbook of grief poems, I Keep You with Me. My work also has appeared in publications such as Thorny Locust Magazine, core. zine,The Enigmatist, Veterans' Voices and Kansas Time + Place An Anthology of Heartland Poetry. My visual art pieces combine poetry and photographs, and have been most recently displayed at InterUrban ArtHouse, Johnson County Arts & Heritage Center, Buttonwood Art Space, and The Smalter Gallery.
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