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Tuesday, November 07, 2006

election day

election day
revising the poem
one more time

9 Comments:

Blogger polona said...

excellent! :)

1:28 PM  
Blogger Bill said...

Thanks, polona.

4:01 PM  
Blogger Tikkis said...

Results? Poem against you?

1:17 AM  
Blogger Bill said...

Thanks for your comments, aurora and tikkis. I won't comment on the results because this is not a political blog.

9:00 PM  
Blogger floots said...

nice way of looking at it

6:23 AM  
Blogger Bill said...

Well, it's all about choices, floots. And after writing this I remembered Walt Whitman's "The United States is essentially the greatest poem." That sounds jingoistic until you remember that, for Whitman, the US was very much a work in progress, in need of constant revision.

8:19 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

-Stunning!
--Interesting juxtaposition of politics and poetry--the two need constant revision, otherwise, they stagnate.

---Your haikus are drops of rainy beauty. One reads them and feels thirsty for more and more.
The eastern sparrow perched here, unwilling to leave...

-- there's the flavour of R. Wilson in these haikus.Are you familiar with him, ...?!

---- honour me by a visit:
www.geocities.com/ana_keyan

----- easternsparrow@gmail.com

7:02 PM  
Blogger Bill said...

A pleasure to meet you, Rita.

Yes, I know Robert quite well--in cyberspace, that is. We've never met face to face. He's a subtle and generous reader, and a fine poet as well. I think of his work as quite different from mine, so it's interesting to me that you find a similarity there.

I just paid a brief visit to your blog. I'm getting ready to go out of town for a few days. I'll make another visit, and stay longer, when I return.

7:48 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

the lonely tree
long waited for the moon
to defeat that cloud

____

Well, I have learned a lot from R. Willson who dares to criticize objectively. I think that you share the same subtlity in writing.
I expect to hear from you soon.

Eastern Sparrow-Rita

8:51 PM  

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