Sunday, July 24, 2011

Spliced In Day 24



During the month of July There will be featured here at Lunch Break haiku related essays; original copyright remains with the websites and to their respective writers.


Spliced In - Day 24

...Of course, any serious poem-maker, worker with words and images, may certainly do as she or he pleases. Professional poets perhaps push beyond the boundaries of our expectations more often than haiku poets. Perhaps we will learn a thing or two by looking at their work—serious, humorous, or both at once—whether we think this or that poem is a haiku or not.:...



Read the essay A Poet's Haiku: Paul Muldoon by William J. Higginson

4 comments:

Devika Jyothi said...

Basho -beautiful haiku, and thanks as always, Gillena :)

wishes,
devika

Lorraine said...

poetry is poetry, no matter the form but I like everything on your blog...and maybe one day I'll understand it more ;)

Gillena Cox said...

glad you stopped by Devika

much love...

Gillena Cox said...

Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure --A. E. Housman

Glad you dropped in Lorraine

much love...