Haiku: Graves & Trains
Rubbing faded kanji From mossy tilted Edo graves Shinkansen shooshes past
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I picked you flowers (painting & poem)
Picked you some flowers while I was out Placed in a vase, slightly chipped Perhaps you and the blooms will
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Elsewhere Scenes, Wander + Wonder
Waiting, not Riding
Waiting for a trainAlone amongst a billionJust to pass by, not to ride No where to goBut to my healing
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Shoebox
Haiku – *unconfidential* kokoro postcard (variations)
Often, a poem comes out fully-formed, fiddling and remixing only dulls the knife, sometimes however, variations are eager to come
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Paint + Collage + Craft, Personal Musings
Painting / Haiku ~ exhibit intro and round-up
+ Provincial Poetry, Wine and Goats in Shibuya, Tokyo + Very proud to see my haiku postbox painting supporting sempei
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Kinfolk + Pals
“The Wish” / poem by Sohaib “Sooby” Ahmed
My renegade pal Sooby (Sohaib) Ahmed is a fine poet in the “romantic” tradition (think Shelley, Keats et al) and
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Annotations: Regarding Japanese-inspired Poetry
Consider the words Write them once, only – In a single inky sweep On tactile paper Then add a flower
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Requited
Poem: How Shall We Fill This Vessel? (excerpt for Sheila + Kemp, 10 year)
“How Shall We Fill This Vessel?” (excerpt of poem – written by me – read at Kemp and Sheila’s wedding
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Paint + Collage + Craft, Personal Musings
Painting / Haiku ~ on exhibit in Shibuya (representing Okayama Design)
My painting of a haiku on a postbox is representing Okayama design and culture at an exhibit in Shibuya (Tokyo),
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Paint + Collage + Craft, Personal Musings
Painting / Haiku ~ catalog for exhibit in Shibuya
Artifacts from the Okayama design and travel exhibition in Shibuya featuring Mac Kobayashi’s magical goat farm & my postbox haiku
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Shoebox
Poem: post office closed (again)
Post office closed (again) You’ll need another day to know you are loved by a lost poet without a watch
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Kinfolk + Pals
Memento: Rod H. Ash, Grave + Poem, 2017
On my birthday August 16, 2017, I found myself in Provo, Utah sleeping in yet another bed in which someone
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Kinfolk + Pals, Scrapbooks + Journals
Memento: India scrapbook page & poem (RIP Mom), 2016
I was in India when my dear Mother died, I rushed back via various flights to join with my brothers
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Chapbooks, Fanzines & Folios, Stubbed Toe
Folio: Hotsprings and Stubbed Toe / occasional haiku, 2004
Download poetry chapbook (pdf): Hotsprings + Stubbed Toe, by Dave Olson, 2004
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Portraits of the Artiste
#daveo50 ~ 2001 (shapeshifting) + bargain matinée nod #poem
Just shapeshifting various identities like a global dude of clandestine intrigue and espionage of happenstance / 2001 #PossiblyWorldsWorstSpy {encoded /
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Chapbooks, Fanzines & Folios, Stubbed Toe
Folio: January in the Hot Springs / haiku and paint, 1993-5
After arriving in Japan for the first time, i began exploring Japanese poetic forms – realizing that the didactic 5-7-5
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