Usagi
The Poetic Rabbit
What I’ve Never Forgotten:
“If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only ways I know it. Is there any other way?” ― Emily Dickinson, Selected Letters-
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On Any Given Day
Shapes of Writing
Tracking the Hare
Little Pawprints
- Serendipity wp.me/pEVln-1oE published 3 days ago
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- Fear wp.me/sEVln-fear published 2 weeks ago
Author Archives: Yousei Hime
Serendipity
There is so much going on in my life now and much of it good. Still it just feels more turbulent, like the cloud fronts over the Midwest. Listening to NPR over the weekend, I heard an unforgettable song. It isn’t … Continue reading
Finding Poetry
Rick Daddario is amazing. If you have not visited his site, please do. He writes, he creates, he inspires. Best of all, he encourages. That encouragement led me to try found poem. Rick provided the page, one which he dabbled … Continue reading
Posted in Found Poetry, Interesting Blogs, Poetry, Prompts
Tagged A 19 PLANETS ART BLOG 2010/2013, Found Poetry, poetry prompt, Rick Daddario
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Fear
Well, I didn’t know her well enough to like or dislike her anyway. She seemed kind of lazy. It’s not like we were close. We just worked at the same place. She wasn’t all that, though she tried to make you … Continue reading
Posted in Haibun, Poetry, Prompts
Tagged fear, haibun, mindlovemisery, mother, parent, poetry prompt
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Sijo — Korean Poetic Form
Spring Without Sakura To a windy gulf coast city, spring does not bring cherry blossoms. High blue skies and blue-green waves, we almost always have. But for a time we wade in spring–deep blossom waves of bluebonnets. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Please visit … Continue reading
Posted in Interesting Blogs, Poetry, Prompts, Sijo
Tagged bluebonnets, cherry blossom, dVerse, Japan, Korea, poetry prompt, sakura, Sijo, south Texas
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Prospecting Poesy Streams
Here pause: these graves are all too young as yet. The mountains and rivers are destroyed, the earth a little darker than sky at the horizon, and all things flow out from that source. For the world’s more full of … Continue reading
Posted in Cento, Interesting Blogs, Poetry, Prompts
Tagged poetry prompt, naming constellations, cento, Recursion, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Naomi Shihab Nye, Li-Young Lee, William Wordsworth, Christina Rossetti, Kazim Ali, Chase Twichell, John Milton, Ko Un, Carl Adamshick, Don Paterson, W. B. Yeats, Holly Iglesias, Katie Ford
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