Download or read book Haiku Ponderings written by Anthony Nanfito and published by Anthony Nanfito. This book was released on 2021-07-07 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Japanese poetry form of haiku is perfect for capturing moments of time and reflecting on life. Using it to ponder life's deepest questions and universal truth is something poets have been doing for centuries. During the year of 2020, writing haiku each day helped me stay grounded in a world that seemed to be falling apart. It gave me a moment to be present and think about what I value, what is important to me, and how to give back to others. I hope this book does the same and helps you appreciate all the amazing miracles—big and small—that exist in the world. In this book, you will find over 100 haiku and five mini essays centered around Mindfulness, Compassion, Gratitude, Love & Loss, and Give & Forgive. Each chapter ends with questions for your own reflection or inspiration. Feel free to ponder them at your leisure. Your purchase of this book helps support me (Anthony Nanfito) as an independent author, as well as my podcast: The Haiku Pond. The first season of the podcast features selected haiku from this book as well as haiku submitted by other poets. You can listen wherever you get your podcasts.

Download or read book Ponderings written by Christopher Bernard Rodning and published by . This book was released on 1990-12-01 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Filling the Pondering Pool written by Constance Patrick and published by Word Crafter Press. This book was released on 2023-05-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Patrick's second poetry book is a collection of simple, evocative, and expertly-crafted Haiku, covering the themes of Rain, Trees, Earth, Nature, and Grace. Among the poems, Patrick intersperses details about the Haiku poetic form as well as some of the best teachers of Haiku. An introduction to Kanji Symbols is also included. Evocative and inspiring, Patrick's Haiku stimulate your heart, mind, and spirit, leaving you with lasting impressions and a desire for more.

Download or read book Urban Haiku written by Akili Nyawi Nazeer and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-11-11 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Urban Haiku captures and projects a fleeting idea, situation, remembrance, a moment of joy or pain, sunshine, rain and the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. Urban Haiku reveals simple and universal truths, without a lot of vocabulary.The Greatest Urban Haiku poets say each haiku should be said a thousand times on the tongue. And then Redrafts again. Urban Haiku

Download or read book Haiku for the Pondering Soul written by W. Wayne Wilson and published by WingSpan Press. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: W. Wayne Wilson resides in Brooklyn, New York. Other poetry books by W. Wayne Wilson include: Life In SecondsGibraltar - A Collection Of Poems About WomenWhite Picket Fences And Homemade Apple Pies - A Collection of Poems About AmericaLife And Other Fishbowl Issues

Download or read book 2149 Emergence written by Anthony Nanfito and published by Anthony Nanfito. This book was released on 2020-03-12 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Laura Maverik is an orphaned programmer who lives in a virtual reality completely cutoff from the suffering that plagues the world. But how will she cope when a glitch takes her out of her virtual sanctuary and into the real world? By 2149 the ubiquitous use of virtual reality creates a failed utopia, a system of indentured servitude, and the virtual division of society. In theory, the VR Initiative of 2051 intended to save the planet from overpopulation, promote equality, and help the Earth heal from human-caused environmental destruction. In practice, it allowed The VR Corporation to silently create a planet-wide totalitarian regime and enslave a global workforce all for the sake of keeping humanity “safe” inside a virtual reality. After spending eighteen years in the VR, Laura finds herself back in this damaged and unforgiving world she tried to escape. She's anxious to return to her life in the VR, but forces reveal a different world than the one she remembers. She learns of a resistance movement fighting to free humanity from enslavement and discovers the true legacy of her deceased parents. Can Laura help free humanity from a corrupt corporation and restore her parents’ legacy before it’s too late?

Download or read book The Haiku Questions written by Cupideros and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-09-25 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-four themes and one-hundred and twenty questions in Haiku and Haiku like poems pondering. A meditative read! FREE PREVIEW! --Cupideros

Download or read book Seeds from a Birch Tree written by Clark Strand and published by Monkfish Book Publishing. This book was released on 2023-02-07 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A brilliant and engaging book on haiku, and on the state of the body and mind required in the million to one shot against producing a good one” —Jim Harrison First published in 1997, Seeds From a Birch Tree introduced readers to the only form of poetry in all of world literature that makes nature into a spiritual path. Its message was simple: Haiku teaches us to return to nature by following the seasons—seventeen syllables at a time. With its mix of poetry and memoir, fallen leaves and birdsong, Seeds From a Birch Tree awakens us to what Bashō called “the life of each thing.” Simple instructions guide us to the possibilities for creativity and joy hidden in plain sight in the natural world around us, giving us hope and resilience in the face of life’s challenges. This Revised & Expanded 25th Anniversary Edition includes the complete text of the original classic, plus dozens of new haiku and an Afterword by the author discussing haiku for the 21st century.

Download or read book Haiku History written by H. W. Brands and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2020-05-04 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the past nine years, acclaimed historian H. W. Brands has been tweeting the history of the United States. But this has been no ordinary version of the American tale. Instead, Brands gives his 5,000-plus followers a regular dose of history and poetry combined: his tweets are in the form of haikus. Haiku History presents a selection of these smart, shrewd, and always informative short poems. “Shivers and specters / Flit over hearts in Salem / And so nineteen hang” describes the Salem Witch Trials, and “In angry war paint / Men board the British tea ships / And toss the cargo” depicts the Boston Tea Party. “Then an anarchist / Makes one of the war heroes / The next president” recalls the assassination of William McKinley and the ascension of Teddy Roosevelt to the presidency, while “Second invasion: / Iraq, where Saddam is still / In troubling control” returns us to the invasion of Iraq in 2003. As he travels from the thirteen colonies to the 2016 election, Brands brings to life the wars, economic crises, social policies, and other events that have shaped our nation. A history book like no other, Haiku History injects both fun and poetry into the story of America—three lines at a time.

Download or read book To Walk in Seasons written by William Howard Cohen and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2004-09-15 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To Walk in Seasons is designed to help the beginner discover haiku for himself, and eventually create his own haiku poems. It includes a lively and sensitive introduction on the nature of haiku. For individual study, or for use in the classroom, it also contains a study guide aimed at recreating the thought processes behind this terse, concentrated form. Mr. Cohen's poetry like his anthology illuminates poetic experience: To walk in seasons is to discover what's inside a split instant To walk in seasons; passing through a dry gate into a rainstorm. To walk in seasons is to wake and find you really are. Mr. Cohen's haiku and other poems have appeared in many well-known literary periodicals such as Literature East and West and American Haiku. He is the author of The Hill Way Home and A House in the Country, and his works have been praised by such eminent poets as Peter Viereck and Mark Van Doren. (He was elected in 1963 to membership in the Poetry Society of America) Mr. Cohen won the title of United States Olympic Poet, representing the United States in Mexico City in 1968, and in 1969 he honored at the World Congress of Poets in Manila.

Download or read book Haiku Enlightenment written by Gabriel Rosenstock and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2009-03-26 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A renowned poet shares his experience of haiku and its potential to surprise us again and again into a sudden awakening and thus to a deeper sense of what it is to be truly alive. His remarkably refreshing insights have delighted confreres around the world.

Download or read book The Pocket Haiku written by Basho and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2014-05-13 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quintessential classical Japanese haiku--selected and translated by one of America's premier poet-translators--now available in a pocket edition. In this collection of haiku, translator Sam Hamill has compiled the best from the tradition, spanning the sixteenth through nineteenth centuries, with particular focus on the three great masters: Bashō, Buson, and Issa. Based on images from nature, the poems address the themes of joy, temporality, beauty, wonder, loneliness, and loss. Haiku may be the most popular and widely recognizable poetic form in the world. In just three lines a great haiku presents a crystalline moment of image, emotion, and awareness. Elements of compassion, silence, and a sense of temporality often combine to reveal a quality of mystery. Just as often, haiku may bring a startling insight into the ordinary, or a flash of humor. Collected here are over two hundred of the best haiku of Japanese literature--written by the great masters of the genre. The featured poets are Bashō, Buson, Issa, Moritake, Sōin, Sanpū, Kikaku, Ransetsu, Kyorai, Raizan, Kakei, Onitsura, Taigi, Chiyo, Sogetsuni, Sogi, Fuhaku, Teiga, Kikusha-ni, Tayo-jo, Sōchō, Shōha, and Shiki. This is a pocket-size reissue of The Sound of Water (Shambhala, 1995).

Download or read book A Thousand Worlds written by John N. Heil and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005-12-08 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The art of Haiku poetry, besides plain-spokenness, embodies a beauty and power that captivates hearts and minds everywhere. It is one of the enduring literary forms and for good reason. Traditionally Haiku has emphasized a close relationship with the glories of nature. Most all appreciate a more intimate connection to that fascinating realm, in this case an expanded consciousness of nature's aliveness enhanced by the poetic perception. The practice or technique of Haiku is readily understood, with stylistic characteristics quite elementary. There is much satisfaction derived from the creative process, appealing format and dynamism of these verses. For readers and writers of Haiku it is an uplifting engagement with the aesthetics of nature. When creatively involved, we also grow as persons in touch with the artistic longings of our human nature. This book teaches how to relate to and carefully consider that natural world all around us. You will learn to communicate these observations and personal visions with sentiment and succinctly,as a poet would. Indeed, the volume is dedicated to all of us, the poet of any kind in every heart. Its contents will thrill and enthrall you with compelling insights to the method, striking examples of this sublime little art form.

Download or read book Becoming a Haiku Poet written by Michael Dylan Welch and published by Press Here. This book was released on 2015-09-13 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn the key techniques and strategies for writing haiku in English from acclaimed haiku poet, teacher, and translator Michael Dylan Welch. This book emphasizes the most effective targets for haiku poetry, ones that are usually not taught in schools. There's more to haiku, and less, than you might think. This concise book provides just the information you need to learn the art of haiku and to start becoming a haiku poet. About the Author Michael Dylan Welch has published his essays, reviews, translations, haiku, and other poetry in hundreds of journals and anthologies, and has won numerous awards for his work. He has served for many years as vice president of the Haiku Society of America, and served two terms as poet laureate of Redmond, Washington, where he also curates two poetry reading series. Michael also cofounded the Haiku North America conference (1991) and the American Haiku Archives (1996), founded the Tanka Society of America (2000), and started National Haiku Writing Month in 2010 (www.nahaiwrimo.com and on Facebook). Visit his personal website, devoted mostly to haiku, at www.graceguts.com. Endorsements "The real secret to becoming a haiku poet is to start writing haiku." From the foreword by Aubrie Cox "For many years Michael Dylan Welch's essays on haiku have guided newcomers and seasoned poets alike. With characteristic authority and humor, "Becoming a Haiku Poet" is yet another of his important contributions to the study and understanding of haiku poetry." Charles Trumbull, editor emeritus of "Modern Haiku" "Michael Dylan Welch's knowledge and experience with haiku is recognized internationally. He always has time to assist new poets starting out on the haiku path, to engage in a conversation about poetics, or to recommend a current essay or book. He never tires of answering the question: What is a haiku, anyway? "Becoming a Haiku Poet" is Michael's concise and informative answer." Terry Ann Carter, president of Haiku Canada

Download or read book A Year of the Haiku written by James Maxfield and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2014-04 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Year of the Haiku features 365 new haiku poems by James Maxfield written as a year-long experiment of composing one haiku poem each day during the year 2013 using only the words provided by Haikubes(c)-a set of sixty-three die pieces with five words on each piece. The book includes a detailed preface about the author's process and experience writing this collection as well as a brief but scholarly introduction to haiku poetry suitable for the beginner or the experienced haiku poet.

Download or read book The Four Seasons written by Bashō Matsuo and published by Peter Pauper Press, Inc.. This book was released on 1958 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Haiku Poems II written by Ashi Akira and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-11-22 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Haiku writing is popular throughout the world today. In this, his second collection of English haiku, AshiAkira seeks to help familiarize modern poets with the essence of the classic haiku writers, who sought freedom in the nonviolent way. Born and raised in Japan, AshiAkira naturally breathed in the spirit of the poems written in the five-seven-five syllable pattern, which were later called haiku. These were first written in the era of feudalism under the rigid and decisive rule of the Tokugawa shogunate, by poets who yearned for true freedom. They sought liberty in obeying the law of nature, which is equal and fair to all kinds of people. AshiAkira, also yearning for true freedom in this troubled world of today, wants to emulate the haiku poets of old. In this collection of more than five hundred poems, one poet strives to honor the spirit of the original writers of haiku, writing from his own experiences. Red-and-white plum trees Innocently in full bloom Amid snow forecast.