Emily Dickinson gendai haiku for NaPoWriMo aka National Poetry Writing Month

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Gendai haiku challenge

inspired by Emily Dickinson 
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last quarter

I save up for a chin of gold

and a new moon

4am moonrise

your chin of gold, and me

tucked in bed

moonrise

I shine your chin of gold

and dimities of blue

backscattered 

from the lunar surface

the universe my shoe 

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Alan's gendai haiku challenge

don't trust the cat

her eyes green the earth

with anti-matter

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National Poetry Writing Month

April 27th concupiscence challenge

Gendai haiku challenge


Emperor of Ice-Cream
my life as concupiscence
in a kitchen stanza

 
A nod to Wallace Stevens and thanks to The Columbia History of American Poetry. Ed. Jay Parini and Brett C. Miller. New York: Columbia UP, 1993.
 

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2 single-line English-language gendai haiku by Alan Summers for NaPoWriMo for Monday and Tuesday April 25th and 26th 2011

corn chaff realising oil as one colour

field of dreams an unborn child's colour isn't rapeseed

gendai haiku:

It should be our method that we create haiku which match the times. This is not a new idea and was prevalent in the old days; even Sanki Saito wrote about it before the association existed. Sanki believed:     
"To the difficult question 'what is new?'

I will answer: the new means how the emotions of today's society and people are expressed to fit the times. The haiku must be innovative in any time. 

So we should begin and continue to express the emotions of the people of this time and generation."

(Gendai Haiku, S.21.10)

Kiyoko Uda
President, Modern Haiku Association

Tokyo, JAPAN

(English Translation: Akiko Takazawa)

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Gendai haiku challenge

one line haiku 

kwkslvr : I've a need for the next biblical cubit

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National Poetry Writing Month 2011
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Single line gendai haiku:

Pharmakós the name you scratch inside

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Catching up to April 22nd and Easter Gendai!

Red Sea
stone fish penetrate
my rubber soul

I sneeze half-a-dozen times the Red Sea parted

Red Sea
Year of the Rabbitfishes
Betty goes Wilde

Red Sea
the Rabbitfishes
out of the jug

Red Sea
a Boxfish breaks out
of its wrapping

the Medusa Stage
out of the fire
out of the coral


Red Sea beat my still heart hydrozoa


Byztantine reasons
deep-water squid
feed the whale


AV positive
the great sperm whale
reigns fifty years

fifty years
the sperm whale
and Justinian


Zam Zam
the baby keeps crying
mosaic over teak

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April 11th

some starlight just memory
the wink of an one-eyed dog

as it sneezes

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gendai haiku for NaPoWriMo aka National Poetry Writing Month

April 10th

zeros and ones
Monsieur Verdoux
takes a bow

 
Monsieur Verdoux bombed with film theatre goers and critics when it was first released, but has become a classic.

Weblinks:
1.)  http://www.slantmagazine.com/house/2010/03/anthologizing-bluebeard-a-conversation-with-miriam-bale/
2.)  http://www.hashmoder.com/2010/01/16/monsieur-verdoux/
 

Alan's haiku attempts for NaPoWriMo, or National Poetry Writing Month

April 5th and April 6th gendai haiku challenge

Kuleshov's Puzzle

nitrating cellulose 

and emulsion

Eisenstein manoeuvre

a Flying Pope's

neutrality collides

Flying Pope Japanese gendai haiku:

http://www.modernhaiku.org/essays/Miller-BanyaNatsuishi%27sFlyingPope.html

April 2nd - 4th re Alan's haiku for NaPoWriMo aka National Poetry Writing Month

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Three in a row, from 2nd to 4th April!

2nd April

future waterfalls
new angel DNA bursts out
from dancing pinheads

(gendai haiku)

3rd April

fingertip acupuncture I hold a sneeze at the library

(gendai haiku)

4th April 

Simon Says

If you believed they put a man

on the moon

(gendai haiku)

April 1st Alan's haiku for NaPoWriMo aka National Poetry Writing Month

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Poisson d’Avril

I gain the pirate's flag

on my blog counter

France's Poisson d'Avril (All Fools Day):

http://www.francetravelguide.com/april-fools-day-in-france-le-poisson-davril.html

Canadian Poisson d'Avril prank:

http://simplemassingpriest.blogspot.com/2010/04/poisson-davril.html

Pirate flag:

http://s01.flagcounter.com/px.html

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About NaPoWriMo http://www.napowrimo.net/about/

NaPoWriMo, or National Poetry Writing Month, is an annual project in which participating poets attempt to write a poem a day for the month of April.

NaPoWriMo was founded in 2003, when poet Maureen Thorson decided to take up the challenge (modeled after NaNoWriMo, or National Novel Writing Month), and challenged other poets to join her. 

Since then, the number of participants has gotten larger every year, and many writers’ organizations, local, national and even international, organize NaPoWriMo activities.

Need more information? See the Wikipedia entry for NaPoWriMo!