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Tanka & Haiku

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MICHAEL MCCLINTOCK from http://michaelmcclintock.homestead.com/index.html Tanka (短歌 “short poem”) is a genre of classical Japanese poetry and one of the major genres of Japanese literature.

Let us go back to Piazza

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JOHN IRVING CLARKE Let us go back to Piazza One day let us go back to Piazza where sun peers through mist and its brazen ascent is tolled by bells. One day let us go back to Piazza where racing…

Unsinkable little poems

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Satish Gupta’s poems and drawings Water hardens into ice – a little warmth and it melts Our love solid as a rock, -but the stones are cold Passion does not drown desire Desire is unsinkable The master said, I haven’t…

Dancing Winds

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MARIA MIRAGLIA AGAIN It was about noon and we were sitting in the shadow of the willow tree on the left side of the house The heat made us talk of the weather and he asked me of the colors…

Life’s Ondulazioni

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Pouring Milk for the Master With a limited palette her master painted her into a corner. A still life of a maid pouring milk captured like a butterfly on show. Pinned by the long days of balancing obligation and duty…

Tanka & Haiku

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MICHAEL MCCLINTOCK from http://michaelmcclintock.homestead.com/index.html Tanka (短歌 “short poem”) is a genre of classical Japanese poetry and one of the major genres of Japanese literature.

Rocks ring with laughter

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Or, to be more precise, I am afraid of Muslims WAQAS KHWAJA I am afraid of Muslims I am afraid of Muslims Christians unnerve and alarm me Jews fill me with dread I fear Hindus I am terrified of Gautama’s followers…