Posted in poetic on Apr 8th, 2007 5 Comments »
An eight-days-late post:
April is National Poetry Month. It has also become NaPoWriMo–National Poetry Writing Month, according to several sources, including 32 Poems, a poetry journal of 32-line max. poems, and Poets.org from the Academy of American Poets, which states, accordingly:
April is National Poetry Month.
Inaugurated by the Academy in April 1996, National Poetry Month (NPM) brings together publishers, [...]
Posted in poetic on Apr 7th, 2007 No Comments »
This week’s Intergenerational Writers Lab workshop was led by Genny Lim. Some product emerged (i.e. poems).
Recent Saturdays, Even in the Land of Grown-ups
Morning hugs mother, who tears away
a worried and sick bird
from its nest of rumpled sheets.
We shoo the cat away.
I begin my migration.
A tanka (The prompt was to write a political poem.):
fair trade
sip [...]
Posted in daily on Apr 2nd, 2007 No Comments »
Daiso Japan (”Japan’s #1 Livingware Supplier”) just off the Serramonte Blvd. exit of 280 South: new exploratory ground for all the housewares, gift items and cooking gadgets you never thought you needed. Sunday was my first visit to this discount store neatly filled to the brim with all manner of small goods intended for the [...]