Peacedreamer

• Last seen on Feb 13 10:19 AM 2006. Member since February 14, 2006.
• I have 32 poems, 1 story

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  Only another week until my release. Miss MacIntyre is really excited, keeps asking if I'm looking forward to freedom, chattering on about how wonderful it will be. I know she m

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• on Haiku 02 by Masaoka Shiki, on June 20, 2004

  for me this says that a tree was cut down, exposing the window to early light. It is a moment in time, a physical description with a strong juxtaposition, something that makes you catch your breath. The first line doesn't necessarily lead us to expect the second and third. (It worked with you :-)) Then there the deeper layers to be looked for and thought about. What symbol in our lives might that cutting of a tree be, what is exposed unexpectedly or sooner than it might otherwise be when something is lost. Haiku have many layers and are an interaction with the reader, we have to join the poet to achieve the full potential of the work. And no it doesn't have to be 5/7/5!
• on It's over! by Ono no Komachi, on June 20, 2004

  Yep Nam - its just you :-) - this is a deeply sad tanka, when at the end of life everything has gone sour and even what was joyful has been lost.
• on Woman Work by Dr. Maya Angelou, on June 19, 2004

  This was originally written as a 'work song' for a musical she was involved with, and so that sense of the last stanzas being a song of the slaves is right. She was trying to write a work song for women she says and had to do it very fast, overnight if I remember rightly.
• on Weekend Glory by Dr. Maya Angelou, on June 19, 2004

  Mm that is a worry concept agazeley. Are you suggesting that being black is some kind of adversity - or are you saying that black people, racial minorities, are faced with adversity because they are discriminated against? Whichever it is I don't think you should attribute their successes to being black, any more than a woman's success should be attributed to her being a woman. Maya Angelou is a great writer and a great human being not because she is black and female but because she has been able to draw on her core self, her courage, power and strength, her humanity, and in doing so reaches out to every one of us.