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Tuesday, July 9, 2013

I Quote, You 'Ku - Day 9

“When the heart weeps for what it has lost, the spirit laughs for what it has found.”

~Sufi saying

Your challenge is to write a haiku or tanka (or choose one of your previously published works) that has a connection with the themes/feelings/images of the above quote, without just restating what has appeared in the text, to create a haibun. Play around with it and see what you come up with. Enjoy!

Click here for the first post on how I Quote, You 'Ku works. Every poet who posts a poem this month will be entered into the draw to win a copy of A New Resonance 8.
 

11 comments:

  1. sliding down
    the economic miracle
    a baby cries

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  2. My heart pumping blood
    finds time out of its schedule
    to have a nice cry

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  3. “When the heart weeps for what it has lost, the spirit laughs for what it has found.”
    ~Sufi saying

    Exit, Caterpillar
    Hello,
    Butterfly

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  4. marble angel--
    bindweed twines
    around my heart

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  5. creation is mystical
    vast value of life
    compressed in a seed

    World Haiku Review, Vol. 7,Issue 2, August, 2009 (Ed. Susumu Takiguchi)

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  6. empty cell...
    a white lace covers
    the windowsill

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  7. after the divorce
    she folds the towels
    her way

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  8. July 9: heart

    the man sees a mirage the camel nectar

    Gary Blankenship

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  9. dishes still
    piled up in the sink . . .
    I know have
    more time in my hands
    to miss you

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