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Haiku Ponderings

Author : Anthony Nanfito

Publisher : Anthony Nanfito

Page : 47 pages

File Size : 27,29 MB

Release : 2021-07-07

Category : Poetry

ISBN : 1393862365

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The Japanese poetry form of haiku is perfect for capturing moments of time and reflecting on life. Using it to ponder life's deepest questions and universal truth is something poets have been doing for centuries. During the year of 2020, writing haiku each day helped me stay grounded in a world that seemed to be falling apart. It gave me a moment to be present and think about what I value, what is important to me, and how to give back to others. I hope this book does the same and helps you appreciate all the amazing miracles—big and small—that exist in the world. In this book, you will find over 100 haiku and five mini essays centered around Mindfulness, Compassion, Gratitude, Love & Loss, and Give & Forgive. Each chapter ends with questions for your own reflection or inspiration. Feel free to ponder them at your leisure. Your purchase of this book helps support me (Anthony Nanfito) as an independent author, as well as my podcast: The Haiku Pond. The first season of the podcast features selected haiku from this book as well as haiku submitted by other poets. You can listen wherever you get your podcasts.



2149: Emergence

Author : Anthony Nanfito

Publisher : Anthony Nanfito

Page : 179 pages

File Size : 42,68 MB

Release : 2020-03-12

Category : Fiction

ISBN :

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Laura Maverik is an orphaned programmer who lives in a virtual reality completely cutoff from the suffering that plagues the world. But how will she cope when a glitch takes her out of her virtual sanctuary and into the real world? By 2149 the ubiquitous use of virtual reality creates a failed utopia, a system of indentured servitude, and the virtual division of society. In theory, the VR Initiative of 2051 intended to save the planet from overpopulation, promote equality, and help the Earth heal from human-caused environmental destruction. In practice, it allowed The VR Corporation to silently create a planet-wide totalitarian regime and enslave a global workforce all for the sake of keeping humanity “safe” inside a virtual reality. After spending eighteen years in the VR, Laura finds herself back in this damaged and unforgiving world she tried to escape. She's anxious to return to her life in the VR, but forces reveal a different world than the one she remembers. She learns of a resistance movement fighting to free humanity from enslavement and discovers the true legacy of her deceased parents. Can Laura help free humanity from a corrupt corporation and restore her parents’ legacy before it’s too late?



Haiku History

Author : H. W. Brands

Publisher : University of Texas Press

Page : 152 pages

File Size : 43,24 MB

Release : 2020-05-04

Category : History

ISBN : 1477320326

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For the past nine years, acclaimed historian H. W. Brands has been tweeting the history of the United States. But this has been no ordinary version of the American tale. Instead, Brands gives his 5,000-plus followers a regular dose of history and poetry combined: his tweets are in the form of haikus. Haiku History presents a selection of these smart, shrewd, and always informative short poems. “Shivers and specters / Flit over hearts in Salem / And so nineteen hang” describes the Salem Witch Trials, and “In angry war paint / Men board the British tea ships / And toss the cargo” depicts the Boston Tea Party. “Then an anarchist / Makes one of the war heroes / The next president” recalls the assassination of William McKinley and the ascension of Teddy Roosevelt to the presidency, while “Second invasion: / Iraq, where Saddam is still / In troubling control” returns us to the invasion of Iraq in 2003. As he travels from the thirteen colonies to the 2016 election, Brands brings to life the wars, economic crises, social policies, and other events that have shaped our nation. A history book like no other, Haiku History injects both fun and poetry into the story of America—three lines at a time.



Becoming a Haiku Poet

Author : Michael Dylan Welch

Publisher : Press Here

Page : 30 pages

File Size : 22,16 MB

Release : 2015-09-13

Category :

ISBN : 9781878798367

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Learn the key techniques and strategies for writing haiku in English from acclaimed haiku poet, teacher, and translator Michael Dylan Welch. This book emphasizes the most effective targets for haiku poetry, ones that are usually not taught in schools. There's more to haiku, and less, than you might think. This concise book provides just the information you need to learn the art of haiku and to start becoming a haiku poet. About the Author Michael Dylan Welch has published his essays, reviews, translations, haiku, and other poetry in hundreds of journals and anthologies, and has won numerous awards for his work. He has served for many years as vice president of the Haiku Society of America, and served two terms as poet laureate of Redmond, Washington, where he also curates two poetry reading series. Michael also cofounded the Haiku North America conference (1991) and the American Haiku Archives (1996), founded the Tanka Society of America (2000), and started National Haiku Writing Month in 2010 (www.nahaiwrimo.com and on Facebook). Visit his personal website, devoted mostly to haiku, at www.graceguts.com. Endorsements "The real secret to becoming a haiku poet is to start writing haiku." From the foreword by Aubrie Cox "For many years Michael Dylan Welch's essays on haiku have guided newcomers and seasoned poets alike. With characteristic authority and humor, "Becoming a Haiku Poet" is yet another of his important contributions to the study and understanding of haiku poetry." Charles Trumbull, editor emeritus of "Modern Haiku" "Michael Dylan Welch's knowledge and experience with haiku is recognized internationally. He always has time to assist new poets starting out on the haiku path, to engage in a conversation about poetics, or to recommend a current essay or book. He never tires of answering the question: What is a haiku, anyway? "Becoming a Haiku Poet" is Michael's concise and informative answer." Terry Ann Carter, president of Haiku Canada



Haiku Wisdom

Author : Don Baird

Publisher : Lulu.com

Page : 142 pages

File Size : 20,73 MB

Release : 2014-03-02

Category : Poetry

ISBN : 1312033606

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Both born of ancient masters, the unique blending of Haiku and Kung Fu in Haiku Wisdom, gives us a seamless guide to exploring our human existence. With careful attention to the minute detail and beauty of nature, Don Baird brings us on a magical journey of perception, introducing us to the miracles of our souls, hearts, minds and world. By using the allure of haiku mixed with the elegance of martial arts philosophies, he allows us to open our eyes to our own journeys, where we may begin to revel in the grandeur that is our life.



A Wave

Author : John Ashbery

Publisher : Open Road Media

Page : 147 pages

File Size : 38,88 MB

Release : 2014-09-09

Category : Poetry

ISBN : 1480459089

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One of Ashbery’s most acclaimed and beloved collections since Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror, filled with his signature wit and generous intelligence The poems in John Ashbery’s award-winning 1984 collection A Wave address the impermanence of language, the nature of mortality, and the fluidity of consciousness—matters of life and death that in other hands might run the risk of sentimentality. For John Ashbery, however, these considerations provide an opportunity to display his prodigious poetic gifts: the unerring ear for our evolving modern language and its ever-expanding universe of meanings, the fierce eye trained on glimmers underwater, and the wry humor that runs through observations both surprising and familiar. As the poem “The Path to the White Moon” has it, “We know what is coming, that we are moving / Dangerously and gracefully / Toward the resolution of time / Blurred but alive with many separate meanings / Inside this conversation.” The long title poem of A Wave, which closes the book, is considered one of Ashbery’s most distinguished works, praised by critic Helen Vendler for its “genius for a free and accurate American rendition of very elusive inner feelings, and especially for transitive states between feelings.” Winner of both the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize and the Bollingen Prize, this book is one to be read, reread, and remembered.



Thoughts for Thought II

Author : Rachel Elaine

Publisher : Infinity Publishing

Page : 133 pages

File Size : 40,88 MB

Release : 2006-06

Category :

ISBN : 0741432579

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Evocative and philosophically thought-provoking, the short stories, poems and haiku in the second volume of the series of Thoughts is for anyone and everyone to read again and again.



Hyakujo: The Everest of Zen, with Basho’s Haikus

Author : Osho

Publisher : Fivestar

Page : 131 pages

File Size : 16,46 MB

Release : 2023-08-01

Category : Religion

ISBN :

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Hyakujo was the direct heir of Ma Tzu and became most well known for his establishment of the first truly Zen monasteries and his treatise on sudden enlightenment. To understand Hyakujo, the first thing is to understand that enlightenment can only be sudden. The preparation can be gradual, but the illumination is going to be sudden. You can prepare the ground for the seeds, but the sprouts will come suddenly one day in the morning; they don’t come gradually. Existence believes in suddenness. Nothing is gradual here, although everything appears to be gradual; that is our illusion.



Legends of the Duskwalker (Limited Edition)

Author : Jay Posey

Publisher : Watkins Media Limited

Page : 1751 pages

File Size : 41,59 MB

Release : 2018-08-07

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 0857661787

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Heroes may rise, but all will fall, in this western-inspired post-apocalyptic science fiction series—now presented in one 3-volume collection! “Feels like the result of tossing Mad Max, Neuromancer and Metal Gear Solid into a blender.” —Anthony Burch, writer for Borderlands 2 Three: The world has collapsed, and there are no heroes anymore. The cyber-dead, zombie-like Weir have overwhelmed civilization, and its survivors cling to fragile oases. A traveling gun for hire, named Three, agrees to protect a sick woman on the run with her young son. When they set out to discover a mythical safe zone, they must survive the forces that pursue them—the creatures of the dark—and uncover something truly remarkable. Morningside Fall: In the devastated settlement of Morningside, governor Wren is forced to flee the turmoil engulfing the city. He and his retinue seek refuge at a border outpost, only to find that it has been infested with a vast number of Weir. But these creatures harbor a terrible secret, one that has consequences—not just for Wren, but for the future of the world. Dawnbreaker: The remainder of humanity believe they can do nothing but wait to be overwhelmed by the Weir and their mysterious leader, Asher. And yet, the arrival of a man named Haiku, seeking the mercenary Three, heralds the return of hope, and that a new hero will rise.



Musings on Minutiae

Author : Weston Locher

Publisher : Lulu.com

Page : 162 pages

File Size : 24,26 MB

Release : 2009-12-18

Category : Humor

ISBN : 055722263X

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Welcome to Weston Locher's Musings on Minutiae where the author offers up hilarious observations and insights on topics of great importance such as: Living in an urban apartment complex ( if I become an admitted pet owner, then I have to pay not only a several hundred dollar deposit to the apartment complex, but I'm pretty sure that they also reserve the right to harvest some of my bodily organs ), living with felines ( as I'm walking anywhere in my apartment. They scamper in front of my legs, causing me to fall and face plant into whatever furniture is closest. They especially like to play this game when I'm carrying piping hot coffee.), his childhood Memories (Our family was nearly torn apart on several occasions by arguments started when the refrigerator door was open for what my father deemed as 'too long.'), and much more. Chock full of humorous essays and personal anecdotes, Musings on Minutiae will keep you laughing for as long as you have a pulse.