Tag: travel
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VI – preview – each pale song
each pale song your hair has grown deep into the green stone of age just as hills have grown between us and oceans salt everything – sunbathers and their pastel umbrellas get away with nothing here and driftwood piles in hours heaped upon what few memories I have gathered even as my head spills…
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slow clap
in photographs of me in the canals my face eating the sunlight I smile because it’s amazing in my memory and even now that winter is heavy upon us I somehow forget wanting to push my fellow tourists into the green and simply get on with taking comfort from once, years ago now once being…
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Between Giants & Old Stone – Combined Edition
Hi everyone! Just a quick post to let you know that Ginninderra Press is soon releasing a combined edition of my last two collections between giants and old stone: haiku, senryu & haibun in both digital and print formats. Right now you can actually pre-order the kindle version for under five dollars – there’s over…
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garnish
. on our last night in Rome the thrill of nicotine as garnish has worn off and the waitress at the hotel knows I’ll order panna cotta for dessert. after a long search for band aids the next morning we return to the Trevi Fountain and throw a coin and much later on the plane,…
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Poem from ‘Old Stone’
Next up, planning for this year (2014) will be old stone. Here I want to bring together a collection that features haiku, haibun and senryu, with both more traditional forms and experimental pieces. Not quite gendai haiku style, but hopefully pushing the form…
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Poem from ‘Between Giants’
Skip a year or two and onto 2012 for between giants. My obsession with travel kicks in, though the collection has a wider span of topics of course – but my trip to Italy features heavily. The act of being a tourist features…
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a haibun
. Roman Forum (1) the spot where Caesar’s body was burnt seems to scare our guide. she does not look at the flowers, a sheen of sweat on her face as the sun works its centuries-slow destruction on pillars in the Forum uneven footing horns from the imperial road up where the Vestal Virgins had…
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Travel: Alain de Botton Quote
After reading Jeff Suwak’s great post on travel, I thought I’d share a quote from one of the books he mentions. It’s The Art of Travel by Alain de Botton and I really enjoyed it. (A lot of my poetry in the last couple of years has been focused on travel, and writing has been…
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Shade Cloth at Haibun Today
Really happy to have another of my haibun appear at Haibun Today! If you’ve got a moment, here it is: ‘shade cloth‘ There’s lots of other great work there too, one of my favourites in the issue is from Cynthia Rowe – she captures travel so well here in her poem Frankfurt.
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Gelati
Originally posted on ashley capes: A small selection of gelati in Rome, near the Trevi Fountain A whole post on ice cream? Yep. You cannot travel to Italy and not sample – extensively – the gelati. We probably tried around twenty flavours in three weeks and now that it’s so long ago I can’t recall…
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