Sketchbook  Hortensia Anderson, US

 

 

Sedoka* smooth as the inside of the whorls of a pink shell I rise from the warm bubbles the cool moon outside bathes me in a pearly glow as I fall into your arms   *See the Writer's Handbook

 

 

Gunsaku* Hexagram the invention of teabags makes telling the future impossible winter sun— filling the empty chair by the window drifting... into my dreams... childhood canoe ...by the waves washed away by the waves... swallowing life rafts of pain pills with sips of chills basho's frog floating in a jar of rain— fevered dream another scar— a new old me departing friends— getting to know my organs as they fail   Gunsaku* gunsaku (group work) Of haiku and tanka, a group of poems on a single subject which illuminate the subject from various points of view, but can be read independently. William J. Higginson with Penny Harter, The Haiku Handbook: How to Write, Share, and Teach Haiku, published by Kodansha International. Copyright (C) 1989. p. 288.

 

 

Double-reverse Cinquain Chelsea Flowers How the pale peony mingles with hyacinth, the slightest trace of roses on my wrist. And then, faintly, on a dark, moonless night orange blossoms echo the fragrance of Spring days.

 

 

Haibun Kanji I dip the brush in black ink, make strokes across the blank white page. If you didn't know, you might have supposed it a Chinese calligraphy or in some other Oriental language. The strokes are scars—sweeping half-moon curves, a tiny v flock of birds, vertical lines wavering upward, pagoda eaves, other horizons...in the language of my self, the kanji means "torso". scalpel— getting down to basic structures

 

 

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