Today in Labor History October 3, 1957: The California State Superior Court ruled that the book Howl and Other Poems, by Allen Ginsberg, was not obscene. The poem was based, in part, on a horrifying peyote hallucination he had of the glitzy Sir Frances Drake hotel, in San Francisco, morphing into a child-eating demon. The poem’s references to drug use and to homosexuality are what provoked the obscenity trial. City Lights bookstore own and publisher of Howl, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and bookstore manager, Shig Murao, were arrested on obscenity charges for selling the book.
I'm delighted that my haiga on black-eyed Susan's is published in the Enchanted Garden Haiku Journal - Issue 4. The theme is 'sparkles, yellow'. A big thanks to Steliana Voicu for the translation into Romanian and the great editing job.
Having finished my first month of haiku's I wanted to do something special. So I've taken every word and tried to make a September poem using them all. Unfortunately, it doesn't fit in one post. So it's threaded after this one.
Start each #haiku with the same first lines below:
MORNING SUN…
or
SEASHELLS….
Post haiku in comments, as ever enjoy mulling over the first line & considering your options at different points during the evening or day depending on your time zone.