Entries in haiku (6)
Wednesday
Jan262011
Haiku on a Pellegrino Bottle
OR-VT
CT-DE
DEPOSIT 5¢
Posted on Wednesday, January 26, 2011 at 07:21AM | by BVD | in Poetry | tagged haiku | Share Article | Post a Comment
Monday
Nov152010
Civil War Haiku (2)
My fourth-grade teacher
Had Mosby’s sword on the wall
Segregated schools.
Posted on Monday, November 15, 2010 at 08:32PM | by BVD | in Commentary, Poetry | tagged Civil War, Mosby, haiku, race, segregation | Share Article | Post a Comment
Monday
Nov152010
Civil War Haiku (1)
(For Michael Douglas Jones.)
Burnside told us, Charge
The heights at Fredericksburg
Thousands departed.
Posted on Monday, November 15, 2010 at 08:26PM | by BVD | in Poetry | tagged Civil War, Fredericksburg, haiku | Share Article | Post a Comment
Saturday
Sep122009
Sunset, Saturday, 12 September 2009
Having spent the day driving through Madison, Culpeper and Rappahannock Counties trying, with dramatic lack of success, to find us a place, I’m left with little to say. Here, then, is something little by definition – a ‘literary’ haiku.
MOBY-DICK
Begin with Ishmael
End with Ishmael and the whale
Typhoon of pages
One more, in honor of house-searching:
WORDSWORTH
Lines composed above
Part of nature that I love
Subdivision rights
Posted on Saturday, September 12, 2009 at 08:34PM | by BVD | in Poetry, Sunset Paintings | tagged Blue Ridge, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick, William Wordsworth, haiku, “Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey” | Share Article | Comments Off
Sonnet Haiku
How different is
A haiku from a sonnet?
Let me count the ways