Friday, November 13, 2020
Haiku Friday: Whatcha Reading?
I'm thinking about reading a lot right now. I do that when I am in the middle of writing something important, which is what I am doing. What I'm thinking about reading is Barack Obama's not-yet-released memoir (it comes out next week). To get ready, I went back and re-read Ta-Nehisi Coates's essay about the Obama presidency in The Atlantic. I felt a connection to it; Coates called me up as he was getting ready to write it, to work out how clemency fit in. I talked to him as a stood in a field at St. Olaf, about to watch a cross-country meet on a brilliant November morning near a marshfield of bleached tall reeds.
So... watcha reading? Let's haiku about that this week. Here, I will go first:
Read about the past
While I thought about what's next;
A thin string through time.
Now it is your turn! Just use the 5/7/5 syllable pattern, and have some fun!
Comments:
A ray of hope in
Robert Putnam’s “The Upswing”
A new day may dawn
Sam Pepy’s diaries
Tell of plague, war, London fire.
Hard times are not new.
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California goes dry
worst case scenarios come
but teens conquer all
("Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman, a YA thriller)
worst case scenarios come
but teens conquer all
("Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman, a YA thriller)
A ray of hope in
Robert Putnam’s “The Upswing”
A new day may dawn
Sam Pepy’s diaries
Tell of plague, war, London fire.
Hard times are not new.
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: 12:54 PM
a poetic friend
capturing pain and heartbreak
in the written word
beautiful honest
she writes from experience
teaching others well
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capturing pain and heartbreak
in the written word
beautiful honest
she writes from experience
teaching others well
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