Tuesday, July 07, 2009
haiku for july 4th, 2009, illinois usa
hot illinois fourth
corn of all sizes shimmering
spring planting stories
kickapoo bottoms
bobcat's tracks pressed deep in mud
poet's mind gone blank
minor league baseball,
packed stadium, sea of cub
jerseys, fourth fireworks
outside of use,
rolling hills, shaded valleys;
sunny, lazy fourth
illinois river,
night settles on weedy banks;
folks wait for fireworks
river bank wildflow'rs;
overgrown blooms hide car's nose-
we've gone in for fish
(7-09)
Saturday, June 21, 2008
Sunday, May 06, 2007
TOEFL HAIKU
1
Peer pressure, panic
Go to SIU in June-
Choose the correct answer!
2
April TOEFL class,
Listening section blah blah
What did the man mean?
3
outside, spring blossome
finish reading section!
c, c, c, c, c!
4
listen to passage
about fishing- do NOT write
on the answer sheet!
5
barbeque on porch,
neighbors drunk on Friday night
long reading section!
6
No eating in pool-
meaning of “pool” in line 1?
Life is a reading question…
7
B and D are wrong,
A and C are possible,
Missing the picnic!
8
That I am the person whose
summer comes to this!
9
Native country code,
fill in the little circles-
slight breeze from window
10
what can be inferred,
asks question forty seven-
brain is at the beach
11
fishing on boat dock,
grammar section on my mind,
mosquito on knee
12
spring smell, flowers’ bloom
attract bees- if bee is right,
a, c and d must be wrong!
13
summer impatience
heard this example before,
neither likes painting!
14
don’t slow down to fix
sandals, race clock, read ev’ry
passage- pencils down!
Wednesday, January 03, 2007
crumbs, champagne bottle,
reflection in monitor -
haiku on email
baby wears himself out,
long nap on living room couch
rose parade or not
reflection in monitor -
haiku on email
baby wears himself out,
long nap on living room couch
rose parade or not
Monday, December 25, 2006
coffee grounds spill down
percolator's hourglass mound
cold morning seconds
dubai mall complaints
titanic theme song constant,
louder than air-con
odyssey- drama,
winter break experience
in parked honda van
Thursday, December 14, 2006
Link poets take a look at this:
From concrete to digital: The reconceptualisation of poetic space, by Anna Katharina Schaffner.
Lots of links too- especially the bibliography!
More to say on this later- I hope...
Wednesday, December 06, 2006
Here we have an interesting site. I link to it because, if you get into the mechanics of it, you realize that the fact that everything is in threes- three verses, three articles, three words in the title, etc., gives a kind of an interesting relationship of things that runs through the links. I'd like to explore this more, maybe try it. It's a kind of twist to link poetry...
