Works In Progress—Activist Poetry
Philippe de Saint Maurice on why a new kind of poetry is needed: Often these days the poet rages at the dire state of the world’s global politics, too rarely confronted by [...]
haiku chain
Loving Light – haiku chain
I All my life I’ve loved beaches and the beauty of being on the edge * Where senses merge like sex in sand and sky in eyes we are everywhere * Feeling a moment like [...]
valentine possibilities (haiku couple)
A Valentine’s day haiku “couple” from Freddie Omm: each love is a kiss melting and mingling – messed-up unmissable bliss * each kiss is a sign: [...]
salle des pas perdus – poitiers
hall of lost footsteps fugitive hot whispered words scabrous ancestral songs * judgments from the court of love whose lust-drunk troubadours inspire my spirit: * a joy for [...]
here right now (lit like sparks in rain)
A New Years haiku chain (for absent friends) from Freddie Omm:lost in your head – a maze in shade, leaves in fall – can’t find a way out * your mind’s lost [...]
seasonal remnants – munsterkerk abbey, roermond – evening: four haiku
round the munsterkerk the Christmas market’s dark, stands and stalls shuttered up: * seasonal crowds withdrawn in space of singular silence no one hears nor follows * [...]