Looking for punditry? Keeping scrolling down the page (check
this update, if you’re wondering about goombahs and Scalias),
and come back later. Right now, I need to enjoy a gorgeous
upstate New York spring day.
michael dylan welch shared his Thornewood hiking
experience with one-breath poetry:
a red berry on the trail
I look up
to the chickadee’s song
first on the trail—
the pull of a spider’s strand
across my face
a switch-back
in the trail—
I glance at her face
a climbing pea
has lassoed a blade
of crab grass!
trail dust settles—
a shooting star bobs
over a spider’s turret
a mushroom cap
tilting in the sun—
I feel for my bald spot
new shoots
on the big-leaf maple—
how blue the sky, how blue
Michael Dylan Welch from Thornewood Poems
“welchSeal32”
lit by the sunset
waves along the shore
rolling the seal’s body
haiku & photo from Open Window
by Michael Dylan Welch
March 28, 2006
a haiku kind of day
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a grown man actually has the nerve to call
himself “captain haiku?” he deserves alot
of credit for something, but i’m not sure
what.
Comment by sylvain moret — March 28, 2006 @ 6:52 pm
a grown man actually has the nerve to call
himself “captain haiku?” he deserves alot
of credit for something, but i’m not sure
what.
Comment by sylvain moret — March 28, 2006 @ 6:52 pm
You got up on the grumpy side of bed again, I see, Sylvain. Did you click on the link to check out Michael’s Captain Haiku website? He created a persona to bring a little fun into the often too-serious and self-important world of haiku, while setting up a very informative website in 1997.
Of course, Michael Dylan Welch does not need me to explain his many contributions to the world of haiku.
Comment by David Giacalone — March 28, 2006 @ 7:09 pm
You got up on the grumpy side of bed again, I see, Sylvain. Did you click on the link to check out Michael’s Captain Haiku website? He created a persona to bring a little fun into the often too-serious and self-important world of haiku, while setting up a very informative website in 1997.
Of course, Michael Dylan Welch does not need me to explain his many contributions to the world of haiku.
Comment by David Giacalone — March 28, 2006 @ 7:09 pm
yes, and as soon as i read that he claims
to have been named after dylan thomas
i wondered if dylan thomas had pet names
for himself.
Comment by sylvain moret — March 28, 2006 @ 8:35 pm
yes, and as soon as i read that he claims
to have been named after dylan thomas
i wondered if dylan thomas had pet names
for himself.
Comment by sylvain moret — March 28, 2006 @ 8:35 pm