Wild Orchids contains 300 contemporary haiku and senryu poems, each carefully crafted in the free-form style. This collection is pure poetry — 300 moments distilled to their essence. Poems include:200 haiku arranged across five sections: Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter and Muki (without season)100 senryu — the comedy, tragedy and satire of human natureAmong these poems, 30 have been previously published in poetry jour...

Haiku Traditions contains 300 original haiku, senryu, tanka and haibun poems, including brief introductions explaining the form and function of each unique style. Poems include:220 haiku split into five categories: Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter and Modern40 senryu—the comedy, tragedy and satire of human nature30 tanka—five-line poetry in the 5-7-5-7-7 tradition10 haibun—a captivating synergy of prose and haiku poetry

Haiku Evolution contains 300 contemporary haiku, senryu, tanka and haibun poems, including brief introductions explaining the form and function of each unique style. Poems include:220 haiku split into five categories: Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter and Modern40 senryu—the comedy, tragedy and satire of human nature30 tanka—five-line poetry in the modern free-form style10 haibun—an intriguing combination of prose and haiku...

Countless parents, teachers, and other carers for children have discovered the benefits of Maureen Garth''s unique approach to meditation. Her simple but imaginative stories lead children into magical worlds in which they are released from fears, discover peacefulness and stillness, and experience wonder-filled adventures.Maureen was a pioneer in the use of creative visualisation for children. She first developed and refined her techniques with her young daughter, Eleanor, and the ...

Writing helps focus the mind, and for many, keeping a diary is therapeutic. However, the author found journaling to be a tedious chore, and sought a means to achieve the same objective through poetry. Perhaps the appeal is in the imagery or the rhythm of language. In the struggle to make sense of life, poetry truly has become for the author a means of emotional survival.This is an anthology of poems, including a few translations from the Japanese, written while the author lived in ...

Over 200 of the best haiku poems from Japanese literature, translated by one of America’s premier poet-translators and now in one giftable volumeThe haiku is one of the most popular and widely recognized poetic forms in the world. In just three lines a great haiku presents a crystalline moment of image, emotion, and awareness. This illustrated collection includes haiku by the great masters from the seventeenth to the early twentieth century, including works by Bash...

A new volume of original poetry from the bestselling creator of Poetry of Impermanence, Mindfulness, and Joy.In Dharma Talk, award-winning poet John Brehm explores the perennial themes of aging, compassion, emptiness, nonseparation, and more. At once poignant and humorous, Brehm’s gentle, wry poems remind us that the personal and the universal are not different—and point us to the Dharma of everyday life.

About the BookIn ONE HUNDRED WANDERING HAIKU the poets have explored three traditional Japanese poetic forms, HAIKU, TANKA and RENGA. The first chapter offers basic HAIKU, three lines, (5-7-5 ) in seventeen syllables. In the second chapter the TANKA expands upon the Haiku to thirty-one syllables, 5-7-5-7-7.A traditional RENGA is a linked verse form, usually beginning with a Haiku and then a response with two lines of seven syllables. In their MONET RENGA, (a variation upon th...

Step into a series of dazzling, funny, melancholy, and joyous moments with this collection of haiku masterworks. Translators Peter Beilenson and Harry Behn approached this volume with the twofold goal of crafting a book of haiku accessible to anyone and rendering their best guess at what the poets would have written in English. Their translations preserve the sublime spirit of each verse, conjuring vivid visual and emotional impressions in spare words.Haiku icon Basho is represented amply her...

This Truth Never Fails is a playful yet well-grounded narrative of a year in the life of an unusual Zen master. Far from the silent and detached stereotype of Zen teachers, Rynick writes with disarming humor, offering both the struggles and the joys of ordinary life as opportunities for insight. Anyone looking for inspiration to bring a simple spiritual awareness into their daily lives, and also those interested in finding ways to more deeply integrate faith (in any tradition) wit...

Home Remembers Me: Medicine Poems from em claireis a collection of over ninety, awe-inspiring poems selected specifically for anyone in need of comfort, courage, and most of all: hope. Aimed at facilitating deep healing, the poetry offers companionship in times of crisis, taking us by the hand and, poem by poem, leading us out of the darkness and into the light.Silently read or memorized and used as mantra; written down and carried as a personal talisman; given as a gift, or shared aloud, ...

This is a book of American haiku. The form is Japanese, forged by the Japanese genius to express the uniqueness of everyday life. The author writes with a refreshing, simple style, capturing the experience clearly in a few words. The reader cannot help but finish the poems with a greater appreciation of the simple things in life.The haiku book is divided into two sentences, a large one of haiku and a smaller one of eight tanka. The tanka is a form of Japanese poetry that i...