After a week of madly working on my M.A. thesis for 8-12 hours a day, my brain came up with this haiku: a paper monster thesis is thirty pages only section one!
See all the Word Bag Contest entries from the 2009 Book & Music Festival.
Bamboo Ridge Press Word Bag Poetry contest winners from the Hawaii Book & Music Festival.
we feel so much at one time
like drugs in a capsule
Swollen Moments
The stranger sang a theme
From someone else’s dream
The leaves began to fall
And no one spoke at all
But I can’t seem to recall
When you came along
Ingenue
Ingenue
I just don’t know what to do
-Mono
I love haikus…they are simple and elegant-like a bamboo shoot.
Here are my three favorites.
Sometimes you write things as they come to you. But the good ones always write themselves. I say this is good only because it makes me feel good. This poem came to me as many do-as a series of vivid images. (probably stemmed from the paddlers I see heading out every afternoon.) In about ten minutes in the middle of my day these images came out of nowhere-I had to stop in the middle of what I was doing and quickly jot down something before they were gone from me. When I got home it took me three hours to figure out how to describe them and another three weeks to tweek them into sense….let me know what you think if you would?
I close my eyes. I am thinking, trying to fathom where I am. How did I get here? I close my eyes and remember how I once lifted up my eyes to the sky And I saw, to my amazement, despite knowing it, that the stars looked different. What amazed me was that somehow, magically,…