Showing posts with label muse. Show all posts
Showing posts with label muse. Show all posts
Monday, July 22, 2024

Imagine

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surge upon surge of this sultry loneliness  washing ove me ... quiet in a seaside room one night before the deadline the blank page staring ...
Saturday, August 26, 2023

Jobian Struggle Tanka

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for Thomas Mann who claimed,  "A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people."  my whisky gl...
Saturday, July 22, 2023

Dream and Reality Tanka

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for three nights I do nothing but wait for my muse ... snow crystals on the window blur dream and reality Gusts, 37, Spring/Summer 2023
Monday, September 28, 2020

Selected Haibun: Hard Labor

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Sunlight slants through the window in bars of gold, collecting in a pool around my feet. Shrouded in her own darkness, my muse moans and scr...
Thursday, June 6, 2019

Monotone Voice Kyoka

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flat beer and a pile of paper on the coffee-stained desk my muse droning on in a monotone voice Atlas Poetica, 36, 2019
Thursday, May 16, 2019

The Muse and Black Coffee Kyoka

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this quiet morning snowfall ... black coffee awakens the muse to muscle in Failed Haiku, 4:39, 2019
Sunday, March 24, 2019

Selected Tanka: Muse's Mind Tanka

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I can't stand the thought of all those I's in poetry I undress the muse's mind with words, wine, and moonlight TSA Members...
Wednesday, April 11, 2018

Selected Kyoka: The Muse and I Kyoka

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I peer over the top of Poetry Handbook at a cold moon ... the muse and I live together alone for years Revision  The Bamboo Hunt, 2, 20...
Friday, December 8, 2017

Selected Kyoka: Tudor Court Face Kyoka

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my muse listens to the hum and strike of my words... that same old look on her Tudor court face NeverEnding Story, March 27, 2013
Thursday, December 7, 2017

Selected Kyoka: Rage Kyoka

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this starless night the Muse at loggerheads with my shadow ... at daybreak, my first line rage against the light NeverEnding Story, March 27...
Monday, December 14, 2015

Muse's Mind Tanka

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I can't stand the thought of all those I's in poetry I undress the muse's mind with words, wine, and moonlight Spent Bloss...
Tuesday, May 26, 2015

Love Tanka

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writing love poems in winter twilight the muse starts shape-shifting into my ex Atlas Poetica, 21, 2015
Sunday, August 31, 2014

Calliope/My Ex: Love/Trouble Maker, XXI

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the muse’s face in the lake of my mind I fish for words rippling from our ancient past Atlas Poetica, #18, 2014
Friday, August 29, 2014

Calliope/My Ex: Love/Trouble Maker, XVIII

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the muse rising from a sea of words covers her breasts ... I am pregnant with verses of longing Atlas Poetica, #18, 2014
Wednesday, August 27, 2014

Calliope/My Ex: Love/Trouble Maker, XV

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a tanka the site of a struggle for meaning ... is my dispute with the muse cloaked in clichéd images ? Atlas Poetica, #18, 2014
Saturday, August 23, 2014

Calliope/My Ex: Love/Trouble Maker, X

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trapped for hours in a labyrinth of words the muse and I stand facing each other under the blazing sun Atlas Poetica, #18, 2014
Friday, August 22, 2014

Calliope/My Ex: Love/Trouble Maker, IX

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Oh, you are a published writer Fan Lee sounds like my ex ... alone with the muse Atlas Poetica, #18, 2014
Friday, August 15, 2014

A Book of Poetry Yet to Be Published, A Tanka Prose

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A man shaped like a Henry Moore sculpture lies at the foot of the Toronto skyline. Red and black slashes cut the sky above him. A Meeting P...
Friday, September 6, 2013

Lust Haiku

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lust crackles in the dry winter air my muse and I NeverEnding Story, July 18, 2013
Thursday, June 27, 2013

A Tanka about Clichéd Imagery

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a ship perched atop forest branches... I glimpse the face of the Muse in clichéd imagery PoemHunter, June 16, 2013 Note: The opening li...