Gloria Jaguden & Dennis Garvey: Wednesday Haiku, #229

Photo by Paul van de Velde

oval moon
its woman's face
waiting

Gloria Jaguden

 
daylight moon
wearing a shroud
for just this instant

Dennis Garvey

 

which of you owns
that red moon
children?

Issa
translated by David G. Lanoue

best,
Don
PS  Click to learn how to contribute to Wednesday Haiku 

Seánan Forbes & Rehn Kovacic: Wednesday Haiku, #183

 Woodblock by Utam0ro

cherry blossoms
springtime falling
through our hands

Seánan Forbes

 Detail of Kacho-e woodblock

   Silence
between notes--
     cricket song.

Rehn Kovacic

Scholar Gazing at the Moon (19th century)

spring moon--
if I touched it
it would drip

Issa
translated by David G. Lanoue

best,
Don

PS  Click to learn how to contribute to Wednesday Haiku.

Pranav Kodial & Ken Sawitri: Wednesday Haiku, #159

Photo by The Browniris

snow-clad Kanchenjunga
in its shadow
a tiny temple

Pranav Kodial

\

Photo by James Jordan
 

 
last load
my son spreads his hand
to weigh the moon

Ken Sawitri

Woodblock by Kawase Hasui

mountain temple--
deep under snow
a bell

Issa
translated by David G. Lanoue

best,
Don

PS  Click to learn how to contribute to Wednesday Haiku.

Poornima Laxmeshwar & Olivier Schopfer: Wednesday Haiku, #155

Photo by MJmerry

behind the train window
the moon
travels with us

    Olivier Schopfer

 Photo by tinali778

still pond -
the water holds lotuses
and the sun

Poornima Laxmeshwar

Photo by metimbers2000

in the beach breeze
my travels forgotten...
evening cool

Issa
translated by David G. Lanoue

best,
Don

Song to the Siren: Issa's Sunday Service, #185

This week's selection is Tim Buckley's Song to the Siren, with its feet firmly embedded in the stuff of mythology (& Homer's Odyssey) and its head in the lyrical clouds. There is no groovshark app today, just the youtube video.

So it goes with technology. Enjoy - lyrics follow.
 

The Siren Song - Tim Buckley

Long afloat on shipless oceans
I did all my best to smile
'Til your singing eyes and fingers
Drew me loving to your isle
And you sang
Sail to me, sail to me
Let me enfold you
Here I am, here I am
Waiting to hold you
Did I dream you dreamed about me ?
Were you hare when I was fox ?
Now my foolish boat is leaning
Broken lovelorn on your rocks
For you sing
'Touch me not, touch me not
Come back tomorrow
Oh my heart, oh my heart
Shies from the sorrow'
I am puzzled as the oyster
I am troubled as the tide
Should I stand amid your breakers ?
Or should I lie with death my bride ?
Hear me sing
'Swim to me, swim to me
Let me enfold you
Here I am, here I am
Waiting to hold you.

------------------

Moon Rabbit by Yoshitoshi Tsukioka 

are you the harvest moon's
representative?
white rabbit

Issa
translated by David G. Lanoue

best,

Don

PS. Get 2 free issues. Get 2 more free issues   

Lillie poem archive

 Send one haiku for the Wednesday Haiku feature. Here's how.

  Go to the LitRock web site for a list of all 185 songs

Jane Reichhold & Susan Constable: Wednesday Haiku, #148

Photo by Sharon Drummond

a curve of her breast
signaling desire he strokes
            her wine goblet

        Jane Reichhold

 

 Blue Bottle fly, Austin Ferry, Tasmania

ferry crossing
the fly
takes a window seat

       Susan Constable

Photo by Keoni Cabral

from the thin curve
of the sickle moon...
one leaf falls

Issa
translated by David G. Lanoue

 
best,

Don

PS. Get 2 free issues. Get 2 more free issues
 

Lillie poem archive

 

 Send one haiku for the Wednesday Haiku feature. Here's how.

  Go to the LitRock web site for a list of all 184 songs

Ramesh Anand & Anitha Varma: Wednesday Haiku, #144

Photo by Emlyn

autumn dawn
mother serves white rice
on an almond leaf

Ramesh Anand

Artwork by Charles Mercereau

 

new moon...
shadows have
no shapes

Anitha Varma

Original image

a great thing
under the harvest moon...
rice blossoms!

Issa
translated by David G. Lanoue

best,

Don

PS. Get 2 free issues. Get 2 more free issues

Lillie poem archive

Send a single haiku for the Wednesday Haiku feature. Here's how.

Go to the LitRock web site for a list of all 182 songs

Rehn Kovacic & George Held: Wednesday Haiku, #135

Photo by Hani Amir

   Moon
and wind chimes—
        a duet

Rehn Kovacic

 

Photo by H. Dwight Beers

  
   Crescent moon--
inhaling aroma
   of honeysuckle 

       George Held

Photo by jurvetson

shining up
the evening moon...
autumn wind

Issa
translated by David G. Lanoue

best,

Don

PS. Get 2 free issues. Get 2 more free issues
  

Lillie poem archive

Send a single haiku for the Wednesday Haiku feature. Here's how.

Go to the LitRock web site for a list of all 178 songs

Frank O'Hara Hit: Issa's Sunday Service, #166

   
  In case of wonky widget, click here
One of my favorite bands - strike that, one of the best alternative bands of the last 25 years, Sonic Youth is currently on what may prove to be permanent hiatus. It is often difficult to overcome the tribulations of love within a band, especially when it goes decidedly south. But, you never know.

I've great faith in Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore.

That being said, I discovered last week Moore has a new band - Chelsea Light Moving (tip of the hat to Philip Glass) - and they seriously rock and, in the case above, seriously litrock.  

"Frank O'Hara Hit" has got everything going for it in the art rock sense - already there are complaints that Chelsea sounds just like Sonic Youth. Yeah, well, complain away, great music is great music, so there you go.

And then there is: "Yes no, yes no, yes, yes", which you will hear at the very end of the cut, if you make it all the way through the glorious noodling (yes, I recognize this isn't everybody's cup of meat) . 

And, if not and you are still here (yes, I do love you), you can hear it in it's original context, if you prefer the lyrical to the sonic (pun intended): here is Frank O'Hara, reading his poem "September 14th, 1959 (Moon)."
 



September 14th 1959 (The Moon)

Serenity lopes along like exhaustion
only windier and silver-eyed
where fragments of distress in hunks
lay like the plaster in the bedroom
when the bed fell down, greenly
murmuring a phrase from the Jacksonville
Chamber of Commerce of the Pacific
yes no, yes no, yes, yes, yes

an agate breeze pours through the gate
of reddish hair there is a summer
of silence and inquiry waiting there
it is full of wildness and tension
like a gare, the warmly running trains
of the South escape to sweet brooks
and grassy roadbeds underneath the
thankful and enlightening Russian moon 


There's another song called "Burroughs" on the new album, which I have on order, and which no doubt will be making an appearance here sometime soon.

--------------------

Moon Gazing, Hokusai School 19th century

if only she were here
for me to nag...
tonight's moon!

Issa
translated by David G. Lanoue

best,

Don   

PS. Get 2 free issues. Get 2 more free issues

Lillie poem archive

Send a single haiku for the Wednesday Haiku feature. Here's how.

Go to the LitRock web site for a list of all 166 songs

Miriam Chaikin & Máire Morrissey-Cummins: Wednesday Haiku

Photograph by Jimmy Palma Gil

already
in july
this hard dry leaf

Miriam Chaikin

Woodblock by Toyohara Chikanobu

evening swim
wading through the waves
and the moon

Máire Morrissey-Cummins

Art by Ishiguro Masakatsu

from the thin curve
of the sickle moon...
one leaf falls

Issa
translated by David G. Lanoue

best,
Don 

PS.Get 2 free issues. Get 2 more free issues

Lillie poem archive

Send a single haiku for the Wednesday Haiku feature. Here's how.

Go to the LitRock web site for a list of all 137 songs

 

Ed Baker: Working the Full Moon

Click image to enlarge

One of the four forthcoming issues of Lilliput Review I mentioned in my recent "speed bump" post is going to feature the work of one of my favorite poets of the short form, Ed Baker. Ed is a staple around here, in both the poetry and comments department, sending along lots of pertinent and tangentially pertinent information, making sure that I get back on track when I veer off and that I veer off when I'm too grooved.

While I'm on "sabbatical" from the blog, I thought this delightful piece of serious whimsy might be just the thing, a little taste of lots of forthcoming goodness. Enjoy.

Lots more by Ed may be found on his webpage, Bare Bones Bonze. Be sure to keep paging down; there are lots of things to see.

full
moon
belongs
to
no one

nonetheless

Ed Baker, Lilliput Review #165

just
another
new moon

flawlessly
abiding

Ed Baker, Lilliput Review #163

full moon
half moon

I
just don’t know

Ed Baker, Lilliput Review #153

And one from the master's master:








hazy moon in the pine--
passing through
passing through

Issa
translated by David G. Lanoue

best,
Don