Thursday, June 14, 2007

Haiku & horses?

Dear Readers,
Lots of you loved Ross' role in BLUE WINGS (pages 129 & 230) and were as touched as
Sam was by the burly cowboy's haiku poetry about the world of Riverbend Ranch.
Now, it's your turn. The National Wildlife foundation's online magazine is asking you to:
Please submit your nature-themed haiku to National Wildlife Federation by June 30th. Select haikus will be posted in next month's Wildlife Online.
Haiku are traditionally written in three lines of 5-7-5 syllables.

http://www.nwf.org/enews/customLead.cfm?source=National%20Wildlife%20Magazine

Here's one of Ross' haiku poems about the Phantom. You can see the way he -- like most American poets -- use the 5 syllables for the first line -- 7 syllables for the second line and back to 5 syllables for the third line to imitate the Japanese form of writing.

"Silver stallion -- soar
past summer sage, sandstorms, clouds.
Fly me with you. High."

Adios,
Terri

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