A pleasant surprise! I just found out that one of the haiku I submitted for the annual contest of the Haiku International Association has received an 'honorable mention'. 😃
An absolute asset is the recent online haiku magazine 'haikuNetra', curated by Daipayan Nair.
Issue 1.5 is online now, with two truly amazing haiku by @alansummers@haikutec.
I feel honoured that three of my haiku have been chosen.
We talk about achievement. About goals. Setting them. Reaching them. About getting somewhere, becoming something. But what happens the morning after? What happens the next day? After the parade, the party. After they sweep the confetti away. What happens when the big moment fades? Maybe it's never been greatness we were after, but a baseline standard of enoughness brought to our days.
I was stupidly thrilled while reading my e-newsletter from @elcultural to find the word "letraheridos" (more or less "people hurt by letters") to describe what English might call #bibliophiles or #literature lovers—and now I'm wondering if the origins of this newer term have anything to do with #Auden declaring #Yeats was hurt into #poetry ... Wherever it came from, I'm declaring it the best word I've heard in ages.
@Zwieblein@poetry@translators We are all "wounded by letters, by words, by poems," that's why we read and write. I agree, it's a beautiful Spanish variant of the Catalan word lletraferit. Wordstricken!
"Poets are guardians
Of a shadowy island
With granges and forest
Warmed by the Moon."
Poems
British Writer Robert Graves died #OTD in 1985. His poems, his translations and innovative analysis of the Greek myths, his memoir of his early life—including his role in World War I—Good-Bye to All That (1929), and his speculative study of poetic inspiration The White Goddess have never been out of print. via @wikipedia
Featuring works from Dianne Alvine, Kristen Joy Balyeat, Lisa Braxton, Clare Chai, Sian Clutton, Mackenzie Davis, Jazzy Goncalves, Louis Hill, Jacob Kolasch, Ash Lima, Maureen Y. Palmer, Marley Ramon, @MarjoleinRotsteeg, & Ba Seoighe. (Only $1.99!)
It is a rare bravery to face the factors of our lives that have fallen down, fallen short, and fallen apart. It's being present with unflinching resolve. It's grieving without giving up or giving in. That's what gives us a chance. A chance to be new and renewed. A chance to be deeper and different. A chance to begin and, more importantly, to begin again.
Omar Khayyam Persian mathematician, astronomer, and poet died #OTD in 1131. As a mathematician, he is most notable for his work on the classification and solution of cubic equations, where he provided geometric solutions by the intersection of conics. As an astronomer, he calculated the duration of the solar year and designed the Jalali calendar. via @wikipedia
"Wake! For the Sun, who scatter'd into flight
The Stars before him from the Field of Night,
Drives Night along with them from Heav'n, and strikes
The Sultan's Turret with a Shaft of Light."
"Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night
Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight:
And Lo! the Hunter of the East has caught
The Sultan's Turret in a Noose of Light."
FitzGerald's first edition (1859)
The Rubaiyat (1120)
Omar Khayyám (18 May 1048 – 4 December 1131)