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Ukiah backward for 1 day of poetry: Haiku festival

Rugged Ukiah.

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Day Dawners

DAY DAWNERS Awake day dawners, you sleepy yawners! A new day dawns, life's chasm yawns! ---------------------------- mindbringer, 7 November 2009

Sea King

SEA KING The sea. The sea... In my reverie, I seek my tea. ------------------------- mindbringer, 16 October 2009

5 Low-Brow Haikus : Volume 1

Toilet plays mind games. Poop felt, poop on paper but, Nothing in the bowl. As sure as the Sun, Boners will rise in the 'morn, Either may wake you. I don't want to look, But that's just the way it is, When you wipe your butt.

Basho and the Dirty Shed - Dealing with Difficult Situations
Source: Traveling Forever

Dealing with difficult situations the Zen way.

2009 Movie Challenge: Movies 26-50, in haiku

Slowly working my way through my list of movies thus far this year, I present to you my second set of 25 haiku mini-reviews (part 1). 26 = Body of Lies A CIA spook / Hunting bombers in Jordan / Explosions galore

2009 Movie Challenge: First 25 movie reviews, in haiku

I sort of dropped off the radar with my progress on the "2009 Movie Challenge" after posting my reviews for the first ten movies I watched (part 1 and part 2), mostly because I just didn't have the patience to write out paragraphs for each movie.

Haiku: Menopause

Hot flashes, night sweats Seasonal change beginning; Menopause is fall

Haiku: Kiss
Source: Denver Post

Upon breath upon lovely ephemeral breath rests amorous kiss

Haiku...an original

A salty raindrop crawling down upon one cheek to mend my torn heart

10 amazingly alternative operating systems and what they could mean for the future
Source: royal.pingdom.com

This post is about the desktop operating systems that fly under the radar of most people. We are definitely not talking about Windows, Mac OS X or Linux, or even BSD or Solaris. There are much less mainstream options out there for the OS-curious.

This Incomprehensible Whatever-it-was—By Wyatt Mason
Source: Harper's Magazine

Philip Roth has an essay at the back of the paperback of Portnoy's Complaint about how the first lines of his novels came to him.

Movie Re-haiku: "Wall-E"

Note: spoilers within Do not read if you've not seen But please, read later! Lovable robot Trapped alone on the earth Watching his movies Along comes new 'bot Sleeker sexier new model Wall-E is smitten

Pictures and Pictures � Blog Archive � Nature v. Man
Source: maxphotostudio.com

The latest post in a series of man vs. nature urban landscape photography, complete with descriptive haiku!

Nature v. Man
Source: maxphotostudio.com

Nature vs. Man week on Pictures and Pictures photo-a-day blog. Complete with descriptive haiku!

Gary Burton and Chick Corea

Vibes and piano keyboards: mallets and fingers move hammers to strike.

Masters Day 3 Haiku Hoedown

Should've summed yesterday's events up this morning but alas I slept in. Better late than never I guess. Feeling Fleshcy Four blokes few peeps know Chasing Green jubilation Gut guess is Steve Flesch Who is Paul Casey

Masters Day 2: Tanka Slam

I decided to sum up Day 2 of the Masters in a couple tankas instead of haikus. A tanka traditionally consist of a five lyrical lines fandango arranged in a 5,7,5,7, 7 syllabic pattern. So, pretty much it is haiku's 31-syllable big bro.

Masters Day 1 Haiku Slam

Gonna try to sum up my thought after watching Day 1 of the Masters in a couple haikus. Yah I know I left out Trevor Immelman but his polysyllabic name made haiku generation mucho tough Hey Poulter Nice Shot 16th in the cup rapture T6 Looking Sharp

Basho's Trail": Travels along the path of Matsuo Basho, Japan's 17th-century haiku master, help bring his words to li
Source: National Geographic

"Each day is a journey, and the journey itself home," the poet Matsuo Basho wrote more than 300 years ago in the first entry of his masterpiece, Oku no Hosomichi, or Narrow Road to a Far Province.

Silicon poet pens haiku on demand
Source: New Scientist

Humans have been honing the concise style of haiku poetry since the 17th century. Now it's a computer's turn.

Aspiring screenwriter needs a rewrite
Source: The L.A. Times

Most mornings Glen Golightly wakes up at 5:30 a.m., pours himself a bowl of granola, feeds his gray-and-black tabby, Mrs. Parker, and sits down to write.

I was tempted to imagine that a falling leaf had landed where it would work best poetically, not where nature had placed it
Source: uuworld.org

To write haiku I've had to tame old habits. My first effort, before I'd read much about the practice of haiku, came as I waited for a ride home from the commuter train station one autumn night. It went like this:

Hannah Montana Haikus
Source: Denver Post

Disney's Big Next Thing Happily Screaming Preteens No Achy Breaky Ticket Scarcity Between the Worlds Series Bust Girls and Boys Pouting

From BeOS to Haiku: The Once and Future OS Contender?
Source: Bits of News

These days there are probably very few, even among the computer savvy, who have heard of the BeOS operating system. But once, not long ago, it was actually deemed to be a possible contender for the desktop.

Poetry: City of Gold

Golden gate, red hue Aching feet to boot, crawling up mile-high steps, home. Bones jostle, horns blare. Silhouettes glide by glass panes in technicolor. Silence now. Hold still. Cool breeze dripping salty air. Time to eat some crab.

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