Poetry for the Inner Ear

New Haiku:Am I Dreaming Moses on Mount Sinai hears divine whisper- gaining virtue & knowledge Horrid glooms sordid sting vanish in haiku moment On mountains wild chaste nymph reads Issa's haiku Oft by silver stream haiku goddess and I walk- fantasies Straight world versus counter-culture: lamb and tiger I'm Thy servant and then the distance clears: bower of bliss Drop to your knees in prayer: conflict to come locate the Holy Child inside innermost self: mystic flight A family bereavement the mother is weeping all alone Unruly passions  diseases pale: the birds have flown Depth of pain good help I seek: immaculate Mary Felicity with her seven sons beheaded by Antoninus: evil

LITERARY FACTS This article includes some of my favorite events in the literary history. We can learn a lot from these facts. They at times stir us to the quick and convince us about the values of the biographical details of the author. Both Sartre and Pasternak declined the Nobel Prize. This literary fact has always been my favorite. Samuel Beckett refused to attend the Nobel prize ceremony. Samuel Beckett was obsessed by a desire to create what he called "a literature of the unword." Issa's mother died when he was three years old. e.e.cummings was inspired to write Santa Clause: A Morality after uniting with his daughter, Nancy. French poet Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891) produced his best works while still in his late teens. He gave up creative writing before he reached 21. Ikkyu (b. 1394), famous monk poet, was the illegitimate son of Emperor Go-Komatsu. Katherine Mansfield who married Middleton Murry in 1918 died of tuberculosis in January 1923, aged on...

Haiku about Haiku Issa’s 109 haiku without kigo I do the same Inner alchemy in the last line Healing power of haiku Unfolding itself in the last line Redeeming us A miracle is haiku moment Light worker Operation of a higher law Haiku is God’s very being A divine child on A crusade The distilled moment A vehicle for the infinite Religio-mystical state of mind I shall raise my fire to a fever pitch Widening the reach of my haiku Awaiting haiku moment-hammer of god The joy within Cutting edge of third line Goddess haiku 100 billion electrical cells In the brain Enlighten the third line Zazen-seated meditation Zendo-walking meditation United in third line All dreams of the soul End in a haiku moment Author of every thing worthwhile No haiku moment Without satori Raison d’ etre of haiku Goddess has assumed the form of haiku: Our totem spirit Somatic therapy Haiku is the seco...