Murree Monsoon

This poem still needs work. I like some of the images in it that I did not expect. There are some things I would have liked to put in that did not get in (perhaps a sonnet cycle is in order). I like the mouse image, but it probably does not work with all the [...]

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Dog Dying, A Hopeful Sonnet

Looking at this picture with friends this weekend, reminded me just how much of a funny looking dog Bruno was. He was a lovely dog too, even if rather stubborn. I owe him a debt for love shown to me, for love shown to my father. “Love shown” makes it sound like a choice; in [...]

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rocketship

do you ever feel like a rocketship ready to fly but worrying about o-rings that might fail the foam that just might come away upon ascent detritus of a hasty life but still but still what a thing it is to be ready to fly

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After Much Waiting, The Haiku Contest Results

I do apologize for the waiting, but the first delay was an attempt to get more entries, the second to hear back from some truly extraordinary judges. I ended up receiving 6 entries and having an equal number of judges, whose judgment I truly value. George is a writer who has recently begun a program [...]

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With Three Judges Reporting…

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Haiku Contest: The Judging Has Begun

Well, it has begun. The haiku have been submitted to the judges, and the results will be announced early next week. Here are several of my own following the rules of the contest and reflective of my spending some of my youth in small towns in St. Louis’ Metro East. The challenge of haiku is [...]

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Get Those Haiku In…

Let’s just say that currently we have more judges than entries, and that ain’t a good thing. I’m a bit, er, nervous. Plus, we don’t want to eat up Internet bandwidth if everyone sends them in at once, do we?

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Get Those Haiku In…

Let’s just say that currently we have more judges than entries, and that ain’t a good thing. I’m a bit, er, nervous. Plus, we don’t want to eat up Internet bandwidth if everyone sends them in at once, do we?

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Contest, Part II…We’ve Got Judges

Here is where we put to the test the question of whether haiku contests are like baseball fields. I have built one; let us see if they will, indeed, come. As of yet we have four people whom I’ve asked who have said “Yes” to being judges, one strong maybe, and yours truly. That makes [...]

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A Contest

This was going to be a Facebook contest only, but I had to bring the blog into the fun. I don’t want it to become the resentful older brother. In response to the fantastic success of the elucidate the band name contest that just occured (on my Facebook page), I thought I would set up [...]

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