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Oct 1, 2005 1:04 pm
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Mountain-Home is a school of modern waka. Classical waka is the native poetry of Japan. For a thousand years, waka was the heart song of the Japanese people....
Mountain-Home@yahoogr...
Oct 1, 2005 1:04 pm
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I have a webpage on quilt designs which I've created out of ancient Chinese tangram puzzles at: All New Tantram Quilt Designs ...
Thanks for your kind note, Bette! (this public domain poem pub in the 1890s = might be very wonderful for haiga) http://www.bartleby.com/113/2027.html by Emily...
I put the summer sequence that we did up on the website tonight. http://modwaka0.tripod.com Click on waka sequences and go to "Summer Heat." Please let me know...
I only got a handful of individual waka for spring and summer. If anyone has any more to send would you do so in the next week? I will then go through and...
We've completed #11 poems so just to update the number on this ... As if not aware of the deepening autumn a lone maple-- no golden trace in the crown but for...
The sun shining On frost bejewelled grass In early morning . . . The loud bluejay's cry Rips into the silence. Richard comments? [Non-text portions of this...
... Donna, I go to the website and it opens for a few moments, then the screen goes blank. Also there is a popup window which is totally blank. I have the...
Lovely morning images -bright, crisp and clear as is the weather today and such a very strong turn. - very effective....Paul ... From: Shin02143@... To:...
Richard, Since Kit has a Mac, let me see if he can check it out. I had a few problems with the navigation system this time around but I seemed to get them...
The mockingbird's call Silenced this early fall day Feeding with sparrows -- This bird makes a brief visit To my sunlit patio. Richard C&C? [Non-text portions...
I like it, Richard... fresh as morning... ~L ... ______________________________________________________ Yahoo! for Good Donate to the Hurricane Katrina relief...
I like it too, Richard. The feel of it reminds me of a lot of life's moments when one can be engulfed into the sparkling beauty of nature, but disrupted by...
Richard, My sense is that the beginning is quite real in its crystal beauty, and yet though real, somehow incomplete -- as though only one side of an argument...
I agree with Bette. There is a nice sense of real life in this. I wonder if "loud" and "bluejay" in line 4 might be switched with each other. Donna ... ...
Thanks Donna, and everyone who responded. You make a good point about a word order change. I'll think about it. I went back and forth on this when I wrote it. ...
In a message dated 10/2/2005 4:37:21 AM Pacific Standard Time, sw4@... writes: As if not aware of the deepening autumn a lone maple-- no golden trace in...
... Richard, I liked the first 3 lines of your original draft of this better because it had more life in it (the mockingibrd's call silenced by the sparrows)....
... I said tanka instead of waka in the subject line. I meant waka of course, but had tanka on my brain because I was working on Ribbons. Please forgive! . . ....
... where I said tanka instead of waka in the subject line. I meant waka of course, but had tanka on my brain because I was working on Ribbons. Please forgive!...
Thanks for the feedback, Donna. Ideas come and go, wakas come and go, like the seasons, and feelings ebb and flow. I'll wrestle with this one for a while. ...
This is a very joyful waka. Thank you, an'ya. Your sins are forgiven. :) Richard ... From: anya@... To: Mountain-Home@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tue, 4 Oct...
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