Friday, September 19, 2014

Robert Davey

Short poems are enjoyable in a different way than long or middle-length ones. You don't have to read the Japanese haiku masters Basho or Buson, though they are incredible. For something more modern try Robert Davey's "Bronze Age" from Sept. 2012, vol. 5 issue 9 of 4and20Poetry. This piece is great, it captures how haiku are still a form with incredible potential and can be really moving and eerie:


morning sun on 
standing stones 
the dark symbol in 
the horse’s eye

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