This week I’m sharing another installment archiving my Instagram poetry project entitled @poetryamano (poetry by hand). This account focuses on sharing poems written by hand, either in longhand or through more experimental forms such as erasures/blackout poems and found poems.
Below are highlights from August 2017. This month found me focusing on haiku on short, imagistic haiku. Also included below is a haiga inspired by the 2017 eclipse.
Be sure to check out the previous installments of the archive – and if you’re on Instagram, follow @poetryamano for the full happenings.
Enjoy these forays into variations on the short lyric!
Image description: A handwritten haiku that reads: faces shuffle through the coffee drips its bitter business.”
Image description: A handwritten haiku that reads: “at night lilacs lose their color to the moon.”
Image description: A handwritten haiku that reads: “writing across this blank paper a branch’s shadow.”
Image description: A handwritten haiku that reads: “why again why the wind fed broken glass.”
Image description: A handwritten haiku that reads: “reading scraps of Sappho years later my ears burn.”
Image description: A handwritten tanka that reads: “the gray cat’s eyes stop to take you in long before you can place them.”
Image description: A handwritten haiga that reads: “after the eclipse same trees under the same moon.”
Image description: A handwritten haiga that reads: “paper clip dash of wire hugs air to itself.”
The Influence 