filtering through prism
sprinkled glass shadows scatter
splashing across floors
[an original haiku by Holly Dilatush; February 27, 2009]
We recently hung a beautiful prism that is diamond-shaped, and actually holds distilled water, on our diningroom window. When the sun hits it, it sends myriad rainbows of varying sizes all over the diningroom and into nearby areas, [...]
Over and over again I am ‘blown away’ by the power of Emily Dickinson’s poetry.
Do you remember this one?
[I am sharing it as a silent tribute in honor of and as hopeful inspiration for a very special woman who has recently had uterine cancer surgery and will soon begin chemotherapy...]
HOPE is the thing [...]
Pretty Good
by Charles Osgood
from the Osgood File, 1986
[copied from http://holyjoe.org/poetry/osgood1.htm, with thanks to Joe Horn for sharing it and to Dr. Falvo for alerting me to the reference]
There once was a pretty good student
Who sat in a pretty good class
And was taught by a pretty good teacher
Who always let pretty good pass.
He wasn’t terrific at [...]
haiku, anyone? Please visit my new wikispace: http://haiku-technology.wikispaces.com/where I’ve posted this:
I like to follow these basics of haiku:
three lines
first line = five syllables
second line = seven syllables
third line = five syllables
should not rhyme
should contain a metaphor (or more)
should relate to nature in some way
So — this wikispace is an invitation to haiku with a technology [...]
Here’s a poem I wrote and had published a few years ago: (I can’t seem to get it to display correctly — will fuss with it another day (HTML)) but have printed it in simpler text, too, below:
Making Need
Marriage meanderings
Years of relative comfort
Years of take and give
Endless evenings
Afterglows waning
Raw aching
Needing time to [...]
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