♥To-day, maybe LIFE will remind you that you only grow up (really) when you have a child… : )
Question: Would you enjoy celebrating the generosity of parenthood?…
Beauty everywhere everytime…
Your arms compared with the morning sun
When you held me
Dad
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Your eyes
Kept me safe
With their serenity
Or with their spark
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Your smile
Confirmed my reason
To be born
Dad
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My harbor
My shelter
My friend
.
Dad
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For my Dad (and yours)
By Leticia Huber
June, 18th, 2010
Port Townsend, WA
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Poetess Marjorie has been seeing poet Tenzing read his HaiKu poems at the Lehani’s Café Poetry readings for months – regretful to always forget the Haiku poem she wrote to honor his poetry…
Poetess Margery reading her poetry at Lehani's, in Port Townsend...
“No more!”, said Marjorie to herself…and last Friday, brought her poem!!!
That Friday…Tenzing didn’t come!!!
Ha-ha-ha! “The jokes of The Universe”, our group thought.
Then Marjorie’s husband invited me to surprise and honor Tenzing by publishing Marjorie’s HaiKu poem right here in “The Peeps” -for him and YOU to share!!!
Spot on Clarity
Wise words roll off Tenzing’s tongue
Oh music of life
By Marjorie
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Today we finished our third kasen renku, A Skein of Old Yarn, at the Huber Inn, celebrating with cups of sake and tea. Always a great pleasure to get together at your home, Leticia. Thank you! Tenzing, we missed you! So sorry you weren’t feeling well.
I’ll paste the finished version below, and attach its templates. (Hope you can open them!) And if you see any things to polish up, lemme know.
We also got started on a new kasen renku, spring this time. Four verses on paper at this point. I’ll include those below as well, along with a suggested revision and guidelines for the fifth stanza. We should decide upon a place to meet next time and a date. I think Thursday the 20th would be a good bet. And if no one else can host, you are always welcome here at our home.
The Renku Poetry Party, gathered at Huber's INN to close a cycle (and start a new one!; )
Okay, so here is the just-finished renku:
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A SKEIN OF OLD YARN
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(an autumn kasen renku)
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begun August 20, 2009 and finished April 22, 2010 at the Huber Inn
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Sabaki: Christopher Herold
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Jay Haskins, Leticia Huber, Karma Tenzing Wangchuk, Carmi Soifer, Bethel, Jackie Barr, Alison Hedlund, Carol O’Dell, Doris Thurston, Tanya McDonald, Judi Komishane, Margaret McGee
And here are the first four verses in our new, spring renku. Present at this first party were Leticia Huber, Carmi Soifer, Doris Thurston, Jackie Barr, Jay Haskins, Carol O’Dell, and Christopher Herold.
PS I just noticed an awful lot of first person here. Too much. And so I wonder if you might consider changing “us” in Carmi’s stanza to “them.” ? ? ? a nearby tugboat / passes them on the river
We might also consider dropping “our” from Jackie’s stanza. Y’think? Let me know your thoughts on t his.
Christopher
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A Butterfly Lands(working title)
(a spring kasen renku)
begun on April 22 at the Huber Inn
Sabaki: . . . . .
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Jay Haskins, Leticia Huber, Carmi Soifer, Jackie Barr, Carol O’Dell, Doris Thurston, Christopher Herold
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1 spring (Jay)
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a butterfly
lands on my hand
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2 spring (Leticia)
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tulips greet us
with open petals
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3 n/s (Jackie)
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entering town
the first thing seen
is the old stone castle
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4 n/s (Carmi)
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a nearby tugboat
passes on the river
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5 autumn moon
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Three-line stanza. We should try to come inside for this one even though, yes, its easier to write moon poems that take place outside. Also, lets try to write a scene unpopulated by people.
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Christopher has just received a note with a stanza...Will it make it into the poem...?
In absence of it’s usual terrific host, Bill Mawhinney , splendid and versatile writer, professor, and business man Carl Youngman welcomed us all, to this special reading…
And I deem it particularly special, because tonight, in Port Townsend, two friends from early youth, continued adding rich memories to their friendship by sharing their poem-collections with us, at NorthWind Art Center.
Peter Quinn was to start the reading…
Refreshing, interesting, and touching poetry from Peter…
Peter Quinn is a poet and business person. Businessman poets are rare, but it works for him. A graduate from Lewis and Clark College, he spent four years studying with Vern Rutsala, Tony Ostroff and William Stafford. He has published in Mississippi Mud, Foxfire, the Portland Oregonian and Northwest Magazine. Peter is also the Development Director for the Northwest Maritime Center. He continues to write poetry and lead workshops to feed his poetry passion. Peter is currently working on a book, “The Poet Creeps Out.”
Then came his friend from younger years, John Willson, to read his own collection of poems…
John Willson and Peter Quinn were classmates at Lewis and Clark College, and co-winners of the Academy of American Poets Award in 1976. John is also a recipient of the Pushcart Prize and awards from the Pacific Northwest Writers Conference, the Artist Trust of Washington, and the King County Arts Commission. Blue Begonia Press published a collection of his poems, The Son We Had. His poems have appeared in many journals including Cold Mountain Review, Crab Orchard Review, Kyoto Journal, and Northwest Review; and in such anthologies as Spreading the Word: Editors on Poetry and Under Our Skin: Literature of Breast Cancer. A two-time finalist in the National Poetry Series, he lives on Bainbridge Island, where he works as poetry workshop instructor for the Bainbridge Island Park District and as a bookseller at Eagle Harbor Book Company. John is a collector of aloha shirts and rubber stamps.
Always fun and interesting these Port Townsend evenings…
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Beauty everywhere everytime…
Refreshing, interesting, and touching poetry from Peter…
