Tag Archives: poetry writing

The Life of a Poet

Posted on May 1, 2017 by

Does anyone ever feel like you’re writing and you’re in a groove and you’re doing so awesome that you’re creating something like or but you’re really coming up with this?

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New Poem Up at By&ByPoetry

Posted on April 1, 2017 by

This morning a new poem of mine, Mikoshi Dako, went live at By&By Poetry. You can find the poem here. Unlike a lot of poems, I can actually link the source inspiration of the poem. I will warn you this story … Continue reading →

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Rejected Poems: Writing Brings Strange Things to Mind

Posted on May 24, 2016 by

So here are two poems I wrote that mention tai chi chuan. The longer one was in the manuscript for Ohana, my book I’m working on now. But I’ve removed it because it doesn’t quite fit. Maybe something else down … Continue reading →

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What Gets Noticed

Posted on May 9, 2016 by

So I got a poem accepted today by the Eunoia Review today and it will come out in late June 2016. It’s like the ninth or tenth “fatherhood” poem, but the sixth “Sam” poem accepted. I’ve mentioned before that I’ve … Continue reading →

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Sonnet/Haiku Poetry Month: Campaign Season

Posted on April 21, 2016 by

This month, I’ve been working on “sonnet haibuns,” replace the prose with a sonnet. It’s an experiment I’ve been thinking/working on for a while. I know it’s not tradition and maybe even a little bit treif, but whatever. I’ve written … Continue reading →

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From Minstrel: “After The Disaster”

Posted on April 14, 2016 by

Living in our last apartment, we lived in the suburbs, but we were still definitely within the city. We didn’t have a lot of untended green spaces around, and parks were small. Yards were small. Your neighbors lived right next … Continue reading →

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From Hanami: Canoeing

Posted on April 7, 2016 by

One of the things that my wife introduced me to when we first started dating was canoeing. Kayaking is a lot more popular and we more often paddled by them than other canoers. My first time out with Becky, was … Continue reading →

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