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WILLIAM VAN DOREN
Beech leaves hang around
Illuminated parchments
April will be green.
Wednesday, March 2, 2011 at 09:20AM | by BVD | in Poetry | tagged haiku, seasons | Share Article | Post a Comment OR-VT
CT-DE
DEPOSIT 5¢
Wednesday, January 26, 2011 at 07:21AM | by BVD | in Poetry | tagged haiku | Share Article | Post a Comment My fourth-grade teacher
Had Mosby’s sword on the wall
Segregated schools.
Monday, November 15, 2010 at 08:32PM | by BVD | in Commentary, Poetry | tagged Civil War, Mosby, haiku, race, segregation | Share Article | Post a Comment (For Michael Douglas Jones.)
Burnside told us, Charge
The heights at Fredericksburg
Thousands departed.
Monday, November 15, 2010 at 08:26PM | by BVD | in Poetry | tagged Civil War, Fredericksburg, haiku | Share Article | Post a Comment ;)
William Theodore Van Doren. Stony Point, Albemarle County, Va. Oil on paper, 16 x 20.
Having spent the day driving through Madison, Culpeper and Rappahannock Counties trying, with dramatic lack of success, to find us a place, I’m left with little to say. Here, then, is something little by definition – a ‘literary’ haiku.
MOBY-DICK
Begin with Ishmael
End with Ishmael and the whale
Typhoon of pages
One more, in honor of house-searching:
WORDSWORTH
Lines composed above
Part of nature that I love
Subdivision rights
Saturday, September 12, 2009 at 08:34PM | by BVD | in Poetry, Sunset Paintings | tagged Blue Ridge, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick, William Wordsworth, haiku, “Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey” | Share Article | Comments Off 
Sonnet Haiku
How different is
A haiku from a sonnet?
Let me count the ways