My response to dVerse Poetics – Sentiments of the Southwest Living on this small, waterlogged island, thousands of miles from America’s Southwest, North Norfolk skies are expansive and wide, dramatic skyscapes painted in colours of storms and summertime. I try to picture abundant rolling hills while standing on flatland – no prairies but fields of […]
Day: May 4, 2016
Tracks
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Heeding Haiku With Chèvrefeuille May 4th 2016 kishadoo no ichidan takaki fuyuta kana Winter rice fields– railroad tracks running a level above them © Shiki children play in fields below leaving tracks across the […]
Passing Seasons
My response to Carpe Diem Tokubetsudesu #78 Soliloquy no Renga “autumn night” by Santoka Taneda Chevrefeuille has challenged us to write a Soliloquy no Renga, which is a renga written by one poet, adding our own stanzas to create a “solo-renga”. A renga has two kinds of stanzas, three lined stanza and two lined stanza […]