Another school year’s
panic and desperation
as exams approach…
change haiku June 3, 2012
The song of the chimes
should be ringing from the porch
but you like silence
behave well & badly May 29, 2012
In Fire and Hemlock Diana Wynn Jones says,
For you , the only way to behave well was to behave badly. For me, the only way to win was to lose. You weren’t to know me, and I wasn’t to remember you.
The paradox of this captured me, so I copied it down to ponder. The rest of this quote talks about letting go being the only real way to love someone.
What does it mean to you?
smashing deal! May 28, 2012
For part of my workshop on e-publishing yesterday, I thought I’d better experience what it’s like to work with smashwords.com. At 11:30 p.m. last Thursday night I pulled together my haiku collection, figured that the poems theme either around the seasons or love, put them all other, made a book cover, and published them at 1:00 a.m.
What that says is, “It’s really easy to publish using Smashwords.”
That said, I didn’t like the format it spat out, and re-loaded the file a couple of times until I got it to my satisfaction, but that was simple too.
This is my latest book, “A Year in Love.” If you’d like a copy, I’ve made it free with this coupon code until the end of June: QK59P
A Year in Love May 27, 2012
I have published an e-chapbook of 22 haiku poems. It is entitled A Year In Love. You can purchase it here. It’s 99c, but if you use coupon code QK59P, you can have it free, my gift to you.
she says, he says May 21, 2012
I’m sad, she says,
her head resting
upon his shoulder.
Words greeted by silence
that hovers
like a malevolent precipice.
Why, he says, are you choosing
to make yourself sad?
I did not choose to be sad, she says.
So then, why did you say, This is sad? he says.
What? she says.
You said, This is sad, he says.
I did not, she says.
I said, I’m sad. She says.
No. You didn’t, he says.
Yes. I did. She says, sighing.
Silence weaves around them like water
filling between the cracks.
Now,
I’m angry, she says.
inspire haiku May 15, 2012
Inspire means ‘on breath.’
Let your words be in your breath.
Breathe inspiration.
poetry is May 13, 2012
poetry is art in words:
the visual spoken,
essence distilled,
passion
revealed.
past thoughts May 10, 2012
“The past is never where you think you left it.”
-Katherine Anne Porter
Sometimes a quote just whacks you in the gut. This is one that left me staring at the words on the screen. It’s true.
You can’t go back again. When we turn around, everything has changed. Like some giant game of Labrynth, every move alters the environment. What’s was, is gone forever.
And yet.
In our idealized, romanticized, wishful, hopeful past, we may find the imaginary gleanings that take us safely onward. The loved ones left behind still live, our decisions were right, and history is accurate.
Hindsight is 20/20, after all.
Shawn L. Bird 