Anastasia*

Outrageous Easter, a man back from the dead after two days down in some subterranean nightmare where the wicked live forever and a day. Resurrection is crazy, but is it crazy enough to be true? It is believed to be true by people who just as likely would believe it...

Where Are You Hiding, Walt Whitman?

 Failing to fetch me at first keep encouraged, Missing me one place search another, I stop somewhere waiting for you. last line in Leaves of Grass Where are you hiding, Walt Whitman, you, a man of action missing in action? I have looked through the bones and bowels of...

Tanka: Sailors

swift ship, flying foam white seagulls chase the masthead sails ablaze with wind I speed through ancient water with homesick Odysseus 2016

Haiku & Tanka: Capturing Right Now

The Western mind is distracted by eternity, which we mistakenly define as endless time. Literally, eternity (L. aeternus) means no time, timelessness, time as an irrelevant dimension.   Even those who do not believe in eternity as a heavenly or hellish afterlife, are...

Japanese Haiku and Tanka

Tanka and haiku are forms of Japanese of poetic art that have spread far and wide and found a home in many distant places. Although haiku is better known, Westerners are now discovering tanka.  Like the island nation itself, and its other native arts, calligraphy,...