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Raffael de Gruttola
a hawk glides /
along the mountain ridge… /
afternoon stillness /
april morning /
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Haiku
Raffael de Gruttola
Raffael de Gruttola is past President and Treasurer of the Haiku Society of America and one of the founding members of the Boston Haiku Society which is one of the oldest groups in the USA and Internationally. He has published …
God, Forgive Me
Dana James
Sometimes I wonder, no, always I do, each time I see that face /
Nondescript and plain, but we know her by name, staring at the corner. /
She, who carried the world's greatest prize, praised for her fragile state. /
En La Republica Dominicana
Hannah Ferber
I saw him there /
Bare toes curled into black earth /
Hunching over the infected gutter /
Poems from the Chinese
David Hinton
Carrying a ch'in cased in green silk, a monk /
descended from Eyebrow Mountain in the west. /
Word and Violin–Spoken Word Poems
Pireeni Sundaralingam with accompaniment by Colm O’Riain
These are the letters I leave behind me, /
dull lines written for the censor's eye. /
There are no stories here, only headlines, /
statements of fact, shielding the truth. /
Snow
Parisa Roohipour
A torrent of white /
noise affiliates, /
Kicked By The Wind
Jan Rosenfeld
The years fall from you all at once /
I know that now. we spent a season /
watching the cat shed, after all /
and she licks her paws the way I wish / ...
The Universe’s Lullaby from Liberal Arts Symposium 2008
Mark Simos
Go to sleep, my little tabby cat /
I love to watch you on my kitchen mat /
Sleep, your head between your outstretched paws /
Dreaming of those mice / ...
The Sycamore Tree from Liberal Arts Symposium 2008
Keppie Coutts
Go to sleep, my little tabby cat /
I love to watch you on my kitchen mat /
Sleep, your head between your outstretched paws /