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"... every one of those darkly clustered houses encloses its own secret..." - Dickens
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10 p.m. by the Singapore River
This poem won second place in the 2009 Margaret Reid Poetry Contest for Traditional Verse. It was the first poetry contest I ever entered, so as you can imagine I can't be happier. Judges' comments are here and the poem was first posted online at win...
Distant Blossoms, Transient Beauty
Given that I am leaving for Korea in a few days, I think this is an appropriate time for a first attempt at Sijo, a traditional Korean poetic form. I'm considering writing a series of Sijo poems based on my experiences in Korea, but we'll see!Cherry ...
Creation
As mentioned in my last post, I think there are few higher callings than to create knowledge.Darkness descendsas I withdraw within;in the solitude of nightI craft dreams.A city stands guardon the edge of cognition -its angles impeccable;scrutinize th...
Friends, holidays, and the creation of knowledge
You know, one of the problems with having a poetry blog is that real-life friends hardly visit. Of course, I fully understand the phenomenon - someone who's not terribly interested in poetry will be hard-pressed to cough up comments on, say, a hiaku-...
To a Prodigious Pupil
Ah! A poet -perennial perpetrator of pleasantries!Picture a plume pen, possessed of a plical palm, preparing to precipitate paradigms ofpicturesque, panoramic, polished perception!But paradoxically,pain precedes perfection, precisely the prayer of pl...
Literary gems and dreams
We dream often, perhaps all the time. Dreams, even dreams within dreams, have been portrayed as elusive, incessantly changing images that merge in succession under a kind of warped logic. Gaimanesque logic.Damian's dreams beckon like haunting eyes bl...
This blog has developed into a nice, bright, breezy venue. Well done and KUTGW.
dave
Posted: June 1st, 2009 | More Reviews From davehambo | Report This Comment