What's especially fun for me is that since I've been copying haiku from the same book for so many months, I recognize many of those lines. Seeing them in new contexts is exciting.
I wondered if that might happen! I don’t have the book, borrowed it from the library years ago and made these cards. So I don’t know the poems as published, even though I am devoted to both Basho and Hass.
Thank you for the poem, Kortney! I think chance operations have shown up in my work in different ways over the years. In the past, I often asked people for words that I had to incorporate into a poem, or I wrote inspired by others' lines. Nowadays, I'm creating prompts from bibliomancy, as you've probably seen in my newsletter. The biggest one is probably following threads from one thing I read to something else and being inspired by what I find. Is that chance? Intuition? Plugging into some cosmic intelligence? A little of each, I guess.
Once again Kortney, you have my creative mind moving! I love this so much. I want to make a deck with lines from people in the PPWriC or from my own collection. Not to ever compare my haiku to THE master in any way shape or form but sometimes haiku lines can be like prayers—lines that are good to return to time and time again. Thank you.
No pressure or anything! ;) Here's a poem for your morning. (I don't know how to preserve the spacing in a comment...so just imagine the second line indented and the third line set off from the the couplet.)
Kortney, I love all of these so much!!!
What's especially fun for me is that since I've been copying haiku from the same book for so many months, I recognize many of those lines. Seeing them in new contexts is exciting.
Please do one for me!
I wondered if that might happen! I don’t have the book, borrowed it from the library years ago and made these cards. So I don’t know the poems as published, even though I am devoted to both Basho and Hass.
I’ll post a poem in the morning, dear one 💙
One for me, too, please!
I added a picture and poem in Notes for you. Here it is again—
Stillness
the old village
both the same green
Thanks!
Here is one in return:
crowded river at dusk
geese honking their hunger
- the moon stays silent
Oh I love this! Geese are a returning inspiration for me.
I wonder what the moon is hungry for?
I'd like one! Thank you!
What's the role of chance operations in your work? Feels like you might use them! Here's your poem:
A big rising sun
a field full of cotton.
The lamp is low.
Thank you for the poem, Kortney! I think chance operations have shown up in my work in different ways over the years. In the past, I often asked people for words that I had to incorporate into a poem, or I wrote inspired by others' lines. Nowadays, I'm creating prompts from bibliomancy, as you've probably seen in my newsletter. The biggest one is probably following threads from one thing I read to something else and being inspired by what I find. Is that chance? Intuition? Plugging into some cosmic intelligence? A little of each, I guess.
Once again Kortney, you have my creative mind moving! I love this so much. I want to make a deck with lines from people in the PPWriC or from my own collection. Not to ever compare my haiku to THE master in any way shape or form but sometimes haiku lines can be like prayers—lines that are good to return to time and time again. Thank you.
Oh I love the link between the haiku and prayer. I think you are right--there is power there.
Oh…I’ll take a poem!! Thanks.
I added a poem as a Note, so that you could see the photo too. But I'll put it here too.
Into the chestnut
the chrysanthemum's flowering.
You make the fire.
I love this idea! Haiku are maybe my favorite poem type. :)
They are sort of my favorite too! Here's a spring time poem for you, Kim.
It has rained enough.
A caterpillar
staggers out.
What a lovely idea! I would love a poem. :)
Oh this is a delicious fragment for a poet to receive!
The old village
newly washed white
as if the moon
Oh, Kortney, that is beautiful! Thank you! xx
How fun. I'd love a poem!
This one's sort of bleak! Maybe even Basho has a hard time some mornings?!
Not interested--
there's nothing to write about.
The veil of morning mist.
I love it. It’s not bleak to me, but quite appropriate. 💕 thank you!
So good to hear! Blessings to you this morning.
And to you🌟
I love everything about this, Kortney! Please make a poem for me!
Here's what came up for you, Ann!
First snow
Not a single house
awake at night.
Sing, O Muse!
No pressure or anything! ;) Here's a poem for your morning. (I don't know how to preserve the spacing in a comment...so just imagine the second line indented and the third line set off from the the couplet.)
The lamp is low
stillness
A big rising sun
Some American Sentences:
Up at five but it's not long before I don't need the lamp's help to read.
Cat licks his whiskers, breakfast done; clock's chime fades-- only its ticking now.
More Spring rains forecast, so lilacs take advantage of the morning sunshine.
Love these...and the Chicago lilacs. They're just beginning here.