With regards poetry, I like simple and to the point, yet meaningful and deliberately structured ... the way I like novels too, I suppose. That's probably why I like haiku, and Emily Dickinson. The following poems are from Cat Talk by Patricia MacLachlan and Emily MacLachlan Charest (the book is also worth it for the watercolors by Barry Moser ( Read more... )

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"Religions remind us of our cherry blossom nature, our falling leaf nature. They emphasize time passing, the fact that we are perpetually poised on ultimate thresholds, that we live in the fleeting and incredible interstices of sentience that sparkle between voices containing our absence, seemingly endlessly, within their unmapped maws. and this ( Read more... )

Got stopped by a train today. Here's what I could actually read:

NINE MILE ERECTION

MATT EATS BUNG HOLE

OBESITY IS A CRIME

That's all.

All of the Japanese phrases were in characters accompanied by the romanization, which is awesome, but of course I could not transcribe the former. Also, I inserted a couple of more literal translations in brackets, otherwise everything else here is from "Cultural messages of metaphors," by Judit Hidasi, in Metaphors for Learning: Cross-cultural ( Read more... )

From her journal/autobiography, I Call to RemembranceI explored his mind ( Read more... )

A couple of poems from Witch of RostshylA wayfarer's song ( Read more... )

Short, terse, unfriendly,
Yet sometimes quite emotive;
I am the Haiku. What Poetry Form Are You?

I highly recommend taking the quiz and then reading all the answers. Quite clever.