Someone’s always got to be first, so big thanks to Tom Schulte, for this advance review of Doug Hoekstra’s forthcoming book, Unopened, just posted on Goodreads. Four out of five stars is good any day of the week, and we appreciate the insight, as well. Official street date 2.5.2019. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42641779-unopened
Tag Archives: Haiku
The Unsung Five – Rolling Stones Haikus
The fine folks at Treehouse (re; the last post) asked me to put together something for the Five Things Feature. So, here we have five haikus for the Unsung Rolling Stones – Brian Jones, Ian Stewart, Andrew Loog Oldham, Bill Wyman, Mick Taylor. Inspired by a visit to Exhibitionism in Nashville, and delivered in verse.Continue reading “The Unsung Five – Rolling Stones Haikus”
Nashville Haikus
Recently I was reading some Alan Watts (Zen and the Beat Way), and was struck by his analysis of haiku poetry. He wrote “by the seventeenth century the Japanese Zen Masters had brought ‘wordless’ poetry to perfection in the haiku, the poem of seventeen syllables which drops the subject almost as it takes it up…”Continue reading “Nashville Haikus”
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