Carpe Diem Distillation – Ezra Pound’s ”The River-Merchant’s Wife”
While my hair was still cut straight across my forehead I played about the front gate, pulling flowers. You came by on bamboo stilts, playing horse, You walked about my […]
While my hair was still cut straight across my forehead I played about the front gate, pulling flowers. You came by on bamboo stilts, playing horse, You walked about my […]
by the shallow pond reflection drawing northern fowl a warm sun shimmers (Joanne) silence falls from withered leaves tell her of his winter lies (Björn) Linked to Carpe Diem […]
I’m picking petals carefully to wordless honeyed sighs In exquisite pain you leave striations carved criss-cross on my arching back. Quivering from softest touch feather’s gently tormenting anticipation for when […]
by candlelight young man ages rapidly looking for truth hidden in the darkness forgetting daylight’s bliss Writing a tanka with real toads is an opportunity I cannot miss. — November […]
my little green lawn dreams about the pampas grass i dream of the stars (Jazzbumpa) where I can spy on women in their stardust bikinis (Björn) Linked to Carpe […]
Writing about living in two places (and times)
Poems & Stories from The Author Stew
practising for a whole life
haikai poetry matters
Running in the slow lane
The view from here ... Or here!
“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” — Albert Einstein
chronicling my quarter life crisis