Posts Tagged ‘japan’
Retreat.
Posted in places, tagged botanic gardens, chicago, japan, samurai on January 8, 2010 | 2 Comments »
roll it up.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged japan, maya, sushi on August 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
i’ve eaten more sushi with this woman than could fit in the sea of japan.
Willow.
Posted in my life, tagged garden, haiku, japan, peace, reading nook, summer, tree, willow tree on July 16, 2009 | 1 Comment »
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 [...]
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 [...]
