Author Archives: Pearl

for OSI: Water Prompt a rearrangement of words of another poem. rock squints a mica wink azure is to each as far. the blue in the while  is in each, wild waves beneath. sun unfolds ray of air-immersed beauty. breathing a life coil they touch whisper the ocean, sky neither impossible.

A lot of days of writing what I don’t like. As Nick says, it is often a poem speaks to you. It is almost better to read and write by long turns rather than flipping to and fro, being continually caught back by how good others are. Inhibiting that. Or to read what doesn’t catch […]

Poetic Aside daily challenges can be broad (a memory, an animal), but then, it’s never the idea that’s valuable or unique, it’s the implementation. The official NaPoWriMo (National Poem Writing Month) prompts for the U.S. are also rather open ended (write about paradise, or nicknames) but Joanne Merriam is setting a different bent with the […]

Narrow Road to the Interior (Shambala, 1991) of Matsuo Basho’s trip about northern Japan in 1689. Sam Hamill’s forward says that over the 4 years it took Basho to polish his travelogue of the trip we took with his friend, some things shifted to more figurative than the literal walkabout. Like the tight zoom on […]

which I will probably double-back on momentarily… probably even during… I am trying to sort out the drive and appeal of subjects and tones chosen. Why does something matter to someone in the context of their lives? Why decide what someone says is worth saying or reading? Another has the same pieces to life puzzle […]