Download or read book Suburban Haiku written by Peyton Price and published by Running Press Adult. This book was released on 2014-03-25 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peyton Price understands the psyche of the suburban mother. Once an ambitious go-getter with a respected career, Price veered off the fast track and into the carpool lane. Wanting what's best for two kids and a husband, Price finds it hard not to keep up with the Joneses-especially when they are living right next door. Yet, unlike other micro-managing mothers, Price does not unwind with a glass of wine, but with haiku. True to form, every haiku is a 17-syllable catharsis-capturing the frustration and elation of daily suburban motherhood. Price's topics, or rather, targets, range from boring PTA meetings and kids' sports to the elusive spa day, and everything in between.
Download or read book The Route written by Sallie Tierney and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-13 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poems inspired by the suburban landscape.
Download or read book Suburban Haiku written by Peyton Price and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2012-10-06 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Suburban Haiku: Christmas Special is a collection of more than 100 holiday haiku. Frenzied shopping, endless wrapping, holiday card snubs, open house etiquette, competitive decorating, the Santa photo line-From Black Friday to Christmas Day, it's all here. Suburban Haiku: Christmas Special is the perfect introduction to the entertaining Suburban Haiku series, and an ideal last minute gift for Christmas lovers and Scrooges alike. When you hang the lights, turn up the festive music to drown out the swears. Now don't get tipsy at the neighbor's open house. You might spill too much. Thanks for the help, kids. Now all that's left for Mommy is redo the tree.
Download or read book 6222 Syllables written by Sarah Furtner and published by . This book was released on 2019-03-12 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Debut collection of Haiku poems by Sarah Furtner. Sarah looks at love, suburban life, Instagram, friendship and laundry. She has a laugh at 'Reality TV', and feeling like a fraud. She also explores drinking, family and her hopes for the future.
Download or read book Haiku Very Much written by Margie Gustafson and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-03-15 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If brevity is the soul of wit, the haiku of Margie Gustafson is all soul and a yard wide. From love: Thats why Im married His big strong arm guiding me Across the dark ice to theatrical criticism: Saw "Richard the Third" Oh, my kingdom for a hearse They murdered the play. to wry self-assessment: If I walk to gym And then walk back again I don't need to join Margie's poetry brims with insight, passion and humor.
Download or read book Bash s Haiku written by Matsuo Bashō and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2005 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Basho's Haiku offers the most comprehensive translation yet of the poetry of Japanese writer Matsuo Bashō (1644–1694), who is credited with perfecting and popularizing the haiku form of poetry. One of the most widely read Japanese writers, both within his own country and worldwide, Bashō is especially beloved by those who appreciate nature and those who practice Zen Buddhism. Born into the samurai class, Bashō rejected that world after the death of his master and became a wandering poet and teacher. During his travels across Japan, he became a lay Zen monk and studied history and classical poetry. His poems contained a mystical quality and expressed universal themes through simple images from the natural world. David Landis Barnhill's brilliant book strives for literal translations of Bashō's work, arranged chronologically in order to show Bashō's development as a writer. Avoiding wordy and explanatory translations, Barnhill captures the brevity and vitality of the original Japanese, letting the images suggest the depth of meaning involved. Barnhill also presents an overview of haiku poetry and analyzes the significance of nature in this literary form, while suggesting the importance of Bashō to contemporary American literature and environmental thought.
Download or read book Hockey Haiku written by John Poch and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The greatest collection of hockey-related poetry this or any house has ever published, and a watershed moment in American letters. Hockey haiku is the most rarefied of the haiku genres, and it represents the perfect union of graceful brutality, ordered chaos, and the blood that courses through our veins...and onto the ice. Hockey Haiku: The Essential Collection is full of poems from John Poch and Chad Davidson that embody to perfection hockey's unique harmony of beauty and violence. For example: Zamboni bumper: Don't laugh---It crushed the leg of the Little Leaguer. And it turns to the questions we as a hockey society are reluctant to answer: Conflict--How can I pledge my allegiance to two national anthems?
Download or read book Love s Voice written by Richard Zimler and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-08-18 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These aphoristic gleanings of ancient and mystical philosophy- written in the form of haiku by award-winning novelist Richard Zimler- capture the heart of the tradition in ways that are personally awakening. Love's Voice is a doorway to Kabbalah for readers at all levels of experience. Acclaimed novelist Richard Zimler uses the form of haiku to distill Kabbalistic philosophy into its most essential form, providing a rare and deeply affecting experience of the wisdom of the ages. These seventy-two haiku require no special knowledge of Kabbalah or, indeed, of Jewish culture. Readers who do have some background in Kabbalah will find additional-and sometimes hidden-references and meanings in many of these verses. Every passage in Love's Voice verse is a memorable meditation that will touch each reader in a different way. Here is a greatly original yet historically framed entry point to an extraordinary mystical tradition.
Download or read book Morning Haiku written by Sonia Sanchez and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new volume by the much-loved poet Sonia Sanchez, her first in over a decade, is music to the ears: a collection of haiku that celebrates the gifts of life and mourns the deaths of revered African American figures in the worlds of music, literature, art, and activism. In her verses, we hear the sounds of Max Roach "exploding in the universe," the "blue hallelujahs" of the Philadelphia Murals, and the voice of Odetta "thundering out of the earth." Sanchez sings the praises of contemporaries whose poetic alchemy turns "words into gems": Maya Angelou, Richard Long, and Toni Morrison. And she pays homage to peace workers and civil rights activists from Rosa Parks and Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm to Brother Damu, founder of the National Black Environmental Justice Network. Often arranged in strings of twelve or more, the haiku flow one into the other in a steady song of commemoration. Sometimes deceptively simple, her lyrics hold a very powerful load of emotion and meaning. There are intimate verses here for family and friends, verses of profound loss and silence, of courage and resilience. Sanchez is innovative, composing haiku in new forms, including a section of moving two-line poems that reflect on the long wake of 9/11. In a brief and personal opening essay, the poet explains her deep appreciation for haiku as an art form. With its touching portraits and by turns uplifting and heartbreaking lyrics, Morning Haiku contains some of Sanchez's freshest, most poignant work.
Download or read book Up for Grabs written by Michelle Mulder and published by Cormorant Books. This book was released on 2023-05-06 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frida wasn’t expecting to find much while digging through relics at her late grandmother’s house. But when she comes across a mysterious painting, family secrets, and a nosy auctioneer, she knows the real digging has just begun. Frida and her brother, Zac, have lived in seven countries in ten years. In fact, they’ve been traveling for so long that Frida has never considered herself from anywhere — until they inherit their grandmother’s house in Victoria, British Columbia. Now they’re up to their ears in family heirlooms, paintings of dead relatives, vintage paper clips, and ceramic animals. Then a nosy antique dealer takes an interest in her grandmother’s stuff. A big, sneaking-around-trying-to-break-in-to-the-house kind of interest. Is this strange neighbor looking for something specific? And will Frida and Hazeem figure it out before it’s too late?
Download or read book Edge of Suburbia written by Christopher Bays and published by . This book was released on 2021-08 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I've stayed away too long . . ." Chris Bays says upon a trip to his homeland. In edge of suburbia we are invited as he revisits his childhood?-?his father's war demons, his mother's ghosts, his own loneliness and desire to fit in. We are reminded of the tenuous yet inseparable bonds between family, friends, community and the world we live in and the courage it takes to return to our roots and to listen to the echoes of the seeker inside all of us.
Download or read book Haiku of Hawaii written by Annette Schafer Morrow and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2016-04-26 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic collection of Japanese haiku focuses on the beautiful Hawaiian Islands. Poetry is the voice of man's humanity. It that special art form, that private vocabulary, in which the writer speaks to the reader of things they both have known and dreamed together. The seventeen syllables haiku, the most imagistic of all literary art forms of Japanese culture, was used by Mrs. Morrow to express her feelings, longings, and joys. As the Japanese make up the largest single ethnic group in Hawaii, it is their eyes Mrs. Morrow has borrowed to look at these beautiful islands. Many brush style illustrations, both delicate and bold, by Suno Hironaka accompany poems.
Download or read book To Walk Amongst the Trees written by Steve K. Bertrand and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2022-03-31 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The information about the book is not available as of this time.
Download or read book Down by the River Li written by Steve K. Bertrand and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2023-01-05 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The information about the book is not available as of this time.
Download or read book Simple Pleasures written by Elizabeth Gauffreau and published by Paul Stream Press, LLC. This book was released on 2024-08-05 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Tis the gift to be simple, 'tis the gift to be free 'Tis the gift to come down where I ought to be . . . . ~ Shaker song attributed to Joseph Brackett The simple pleasures of our favorite places in nature are gifts of the spirit to be shared with others. In this collection of 53 haiku, each paired with a photograph, poet Liz Gauffreau invites readers to come with her to some of her favorite places in Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine. Some places are long-time favorites going back years; others have become favorites by virtue of inspiring poetry.
Download or read book From the Haiku Harpy of Sagamore written by E. M. July and published by Strategic Book Publishing. This book was released on 2009-02 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thoughts that come to mind while going through each day. About the Author E. M. July was born in Troy, NY, in 1955, and came to suburban Detroit, MI, in 1959 when her father joined the automotive industry. A baby boomer growing up on the shirttails of the flower children, she moved from her suburban, middle-class childhood into a tumultuous marriage and on to single parenthood and welfare. When she returned to work, in her late thirties, she was living in a motel and traveling by bus, two-and-a-half hours each way, to and from work. It was during this time, in the early-morning and late evening hours that she observed the world and reconnected with her Source. Her creative soul awoke to the art of haiku. e m hopes that this work will inspire all who struggle to seek their creative selves and find hope and strength through their own art. About the Illustrator Marta Prenting Bastian is a potter, who returned to college in 1972 to pursue her passion for art and earn her degree in ceramics. While much of her work is in clay and ceramics, she has also done watercolors, oil, pastels and pencil sketches. She is the mother of four daughters and seven sons, as well as the wife, of fifty-five years, to Bernhard J. Bastian, Sr., a retired automotive engineer, with whom she has coauthored two cookbooks. Mrs. Bastian's ability to combine family life with the pursuit of her own dreams has always been an inspiration and example to her daughter, E. M. July.
Download or read book Book of Haikus written by Jack Kerouac and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-04-01 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compact collection of more than 500 poems from Jack Kerouac that reveal a lesser known but important side of his literary legacy “Above all, a haiku must be very simple and free of all poetic trickery and make a little picture and yet be as airy and graceful as a Vivaldi pastorella.”—Jack Kerouac Renowned for his groundbreaking Beat Generation novel On the Road, Jack Kerouac was also a master of the haiku, the three-line, seventeen-syllable Japanese poetic form. Following the tradition of Basho, Buson, Shiki, Issa, and other poets, Kerouac experimented with this centuries-old genre, taking it beyond strict syllable counts into what he believed was the form’s essence. He incorporated his “American” haiku in novels and in his correspondence, notebooks, journals, sketchbooks, and recordings. In Book of Haikus, Kerouac scholar Regina Weinreich has supplemented a core haiku manuscript from Kerouac’s archives with a generous selection of the rest of his haiku, from both published and unpublished sources.