Welcome to re:Virals, The Haiku Foundation’s weekly poem commentary feature on some of the finest haiku ever written in English. This week’s poem was brush strokes — the mother I’ll never be — Kirsten Cliff, Issa’s Untidy Hut, 40 (2011) Corine Timmer reflects on … [Read more...]
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Welcome to re:Virals, The Haiku Foundation’s weekly poem commentary feature on some of the finest haiku ever written in English. This week’s poem was all the ways to find a meaning autumn sun — Marietta McGregor, Wales Haiku Journal (Autumn 2019) Radhamani Sarma … [Read more...]
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Welcome to re:Virals, The Haiku Foundation’s weekly poem commentary feature on some of the finest haiku ever written in English. This week’s poem was a blade of grass between my fingers father’s whistle — Rachel Sutcliffe, Human/Kind Journal, Issue 1.2 … [Read more...]
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Welcome to re:Virals, The Haiku Foundation’s weekly poem commentary feature on some of the finest haiku ever written in English. This week’s poem was: winter fog an old man turns back into a tree — John McManus, The Heron’s Nest, Volume XIV:4 Rich Schilling finds more questions … [Read more...]
Per Diem for May 2019: Wearable (Haiku)
This month, Marietta McGregor focuses our haiku lens on a practice which is uniquely human - wearing clothes. Her selection of haiku traverses the range of social functions and cultural norms of clothing. Clothing can be an agent of comfort, a form of adornment and an … [Read more...]