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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Tag Archives: Poetry
Ursula K. Le Guin
The first novels I read by Ursula K. Le Guin were her Earthsea books. In graduate school I read and later taught The Left Hand of Darkness. So it was with foolish but thrilled surprise that I discovered she wrote poetry, … Continue reading
Anaphora or Something Like It
On Awaiting the Arrival of My Sister’s Child I think of you with wonder and with envy– a delicate bud rich with the fragrant scent of life I think of you, a delicate bud as yet untainted by a heavy air, and … Continue reading
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Tagged Anaphora, child, family, Poetry, poetry prompt, prayer, We Write Poems
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Whim’s Bouquet
somewhere in a meadow I’ve forgotten where He knelt. arms filled with spherical bulbs jonquil, triandrus, tazetta, poeticus all bathed in the diSparity of deep orange now seeking I grow numb with (out) a hard coat ErOdent time prevents recall … Continue reading
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Tagged creative flow, creativity, dVerse, Free Verse, garden, inspiration, jasmine calyx, Poetry, poetry prompt, writing
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Secrets of Parenting
Not finished yet, but still, I’m decoding the job for the next: Songwriter–never underestimate the power of music– calming the storm mid-tempo disciplining the surfacing beast, and quieting the fatal doubts within. Historian–proof of past events goes beyond legacy– bonds yearbook-entrenched and … Continue reading
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Tagged children, Free Verse, jasmine calyx, parenting, Poem, Poetry, poetry prompt
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National Haiku Writing Month 2013
cirrus coiled into blue new year soba ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ With life as it is now–busy, tumultuous, demanding–I will not promise to write haiku every day . . . even though it is what I want. February 1, 2013 NaHaiWriMo prompt — … Continue reading
Posted in Haiku, Poetry, Prompts
Tagged 2013, Haiku, NaHaiWriMo, National Haiku Writing Month, Poetry, poetry prompt, Year of the Snake
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