Rose-breasted GrosbeakI’m beginning to think that maybe some poetry took a wrong turn following painting; it should have ran after architecture instead. Or am I being middlebrow? I knew I should have had them trimmed.
At first I glimpsed the blueprint on its back
—a well-defined rectangular design
in biblical white and systematic black—
and thought it just an artificial spine
A THOUSAND HILLS
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Masaoka Shiki — the fellow who attempted to “reform” hokku into what he
called “haiku” near the beginning of the 20th century — wrote a lot of bad
verses, ...
6 days ago
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I was looking for a poem on a grosbeak, believe it or not, and came upon these four lines. Do you have the rest of the sonnet?
Hi Suzannah
I wrote and posted this in 4 consecutive posts I believe. Here's the whole thing:
Rose-breasted Grosbeak
At first I glimpsed the blueprint on its back
—a well-defined rectangular design
in biblical white and systematic black—
and thought it just an artificial spine
on some mechanical contraption made
by engineers intent on miniscule
flights of original—although retrograde—
technology—high-powered by fossil fuel.
But then I saw that vivid patch of red
and knew such logic quite illogical.
Instead, its cold-blooded but spirited
existence was something more than physical—
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