I read a haiku today. “ill-tempered I returned, and then in the garden the willow tree.” There’s something about a willow tree, the way it extends a caring arm to hold you close. Protected, I read by its trunk as it swayed in the breeze. It reached for the water, if nothing more but for [...]
Posts Tagged ‘haiku’
Willow.
Posted in my life, tagged garden, haiku, japan, peace, reading nook, summer, tree, willow tree on July 16, 2009 | 1 Comment »
A Haiku for Your Friday.
Posted in poetry, tagged american haiku, books, garden, grass, haiku, monet, wind on March 20, 2009 | 3 Comments »
My book in the grass The wind Flipping its pages
Paris English Bookshops.
Posted in places, tagged abbey bookshop, books, haiku, hemingway, maple syrup, paris, shakespeare and company on February 26, 2009 | 1 Comment »
There is a blog I enjoy reading that is a good reminder of why it is good to be young, crafty, organic, and in love, that recently did a post directed at people who, well, I’ll just say for people who describe old bookshops as dangerous. So here in Paris, there are some essential ex-pat [...]
The American Haiku
Posted in historyish, tagged cows, haiku, japan, kerouac, oklahoma on January 16, 2009 | 6 Comments »
“Then I’ll invent the American Haiku type: The simple rhyming triolet:– Seventeen syllables? No, as I say, American Pops:– Simple 3-line poems” -Jack Kerouac, Reading Notes 1965 …and with that, Kerouac laid out his treatise on the Western [...]
