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...]
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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 visiting graves... we flicker as we walk down shadowed rows — Michael McClintock, Shadows in Time: Sixty … [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 early dark the cathedral visible only as windows — Karen Hoy Another Country: Haiku Poetry from Wales (Gomer Press, … [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 long before I came long after I leave blossoming pear — Johnny Baranski, Lilliput Review #191 Marietta … [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 人に生死苅田鳥の争うよ Life and death for man; a battle fought by chickens on the paddy stubble — Shin'ichi … [Read more...]