Bill Waters @Bill312
Writer; happily married; 2 cats. | #haiku #senryu #tanka #kyoka #haibun #tankaprose #haiga #shahai #poem #micropoetry #mpy billwatershaiku.wordpress.com Pennington, NJ, USA Joined June 2009-
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A few weeks ago I led a book spine poetry workshop, and here is one of my poems. #bookspinepoetry is easy and fun! :- ) #NationalPoetryMonth
bursting its brown wrapper: daffodil blossom stirring my coffee -- the tinkle of the teaspoon fading light . . . spring leaves growing luminous #haiku #senryu #poem #micropoetry #mpy Hopewell Valley Neighbors
Pi-ku as a poetic form is the creation of @BabsMcGrory on Facebook. _()_
red buds on the maple . . . a robin chirps frog-song . . . by the bog pond marsh marigold first warm day! office chair left spinning #haiku #senryu #poem #micropoetry #mpy Hopewell Valley Neighbors
old-growth forest . . . chickadees in the trees break the winter silence -------------------- deserted beach . . . ocean roars anyway --------------------- melting snowman bows to the sun -------------------- Published in Hopewell Valley Neighbors, February 2024 issue. :- )
old-growth forest . . . chickadees in the trees break the winter silence deserted beach . . . ocean roars anyway melting snowman bows to the sun #haiku #senryu #poem #micropoetry #mpy Hopewell Valley Neighbors
New Year's Day -- the sun sleeps late too bite by bite the shovel eats the snow drift bell in winter . . . reverberations of silence #haiku #senryu #poem #micropoetry #mpy Hopewell Valley Neighbors
neighbor's tree: one brown leaf dangles junkyard truck . . . rust flaking onto fallen leaves Hallo-Thanks-Xmas -- the year blurs to an end #haiku #senryu #poem #micropoetry #mpy Hopewell Valley Neighbors
2 of 2 . . . and one #rhyming #quatrain, as a part of an interview HVN conducted with me: That Time of Year Autumn, and I fall in love with pumpkins again, with wood smoke and ragged gaggles of geese, with ginkgo and pine and oak! #poetry #micropoetry #mpy
1 of 2 Published in Hopewell Valley Neighbors magazine: three seasonal micropoems . . . first frost -- the landscape an etching neglected birdbath overflowing with autumn leaves breathing the forest . . . texture of bark and pine cones #haiku #poem #micropoetry #mpy
Haiku and found poetry are two of my most favorite poetic forms to write -- and when I can combine them, it's double the fun! From Mary Oliver’s “Every Morning”: A Found Senryu I read in the sunlight . . . morning itself pauses #haiku #senryu #micropoetry #mpy Fireflies' Light
I practice letting go . . . autumn morning maple sapling -- all twelve leaves orange Halloween -- Death and a ballerina at the door #haiku #senryu #poem #micropoetry #mpy Hopewell Valley Neighbors
early autumn all night long the crickets bird chatter -- the phone line sagging with starlings from nowhere to nowhere . . . bridge in fog #haiku #senryu #poem #micropoetry #mpy Hopewell Valley Neighbors
Today is #NationalCatDay! reading in bed . . . the cat’s wet nose LOL! #haiku #senryu #poem #micropoetry #mpy
ice cream truck! they abandon their castle to the tide mid-day heat . . . cutting through everything cicada-song rain at last the white egret dances through the shallows #haiku #senryu #poem #micropoetry #mpy Hopewell Valley Neighbors
July 4th: before the fireworks fireflies choosing players the smallest kid looks hopeful watermelon sunset . . . I spit a seed into the sky #haiku #senryu #micropoetry #mpy Hopewell Valley Neighbors
Amidst all the changes with Twitter this year, one thing has remained constant: people who enjoy poetry. Sending out a heartfelt thank you to all my readers, old and new! _()_ #MyTwitterAnniversary #haiku #senryu #micropoetry #mpy
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The sun climbs from clarity into murk. Feeling insufficiently caffeinated, I watch the tulip tree’s tall, green torch fade to chartreuse.
after a thaw the ice reforms around itself #haikufeels
loss I lost you yet throughout the years you have stayed with me
Waiting for the rising sun to emerge from the clouds, I read half a book. The sky is a crazy quilt, orange and gray and pale blue. The birds are re-visiting all their classic hits.
If I may whisper a word or two into your shell-like ears for a moment…because I’ve been thinking about all this day and my options are to keep chewing on it indefinitely or get it out, so this is me getting it out. The other day I heard a comment I’ve noted with increasing --
-- frequency, spoken by people to creative folks, “You have to get out of your comfort zone.” It’s become so ubiquitous that it borders on cliché. And yes, I understand the validity of the statement, I’m not here to dispute it or discredit the notion; it has value and purpose --
-- But what bugs me is that you almost never hear people talking about the flipside to that equation, and I think it needs to be addressed. Because the thing about creative people is that they’re always being pushed out of their comfort zone – telling stories, making music --
-- creating art – by the world, by work, by other people, and rarely given permission or impetus to go *toward* their comfort zone doing those things. More specifically: for a creative person to actually get ahead in their profession, there will be times when they have to --
-- step into *their* comfort zone and out of *everybody else’s* comfort zone…the sometimes narrow perception of you as seen by friends or family or teachers or bosses, who would prefer that you not challenge those perceptions --
-- those who are afraid you’ll fail, those who are afraid you’ll succeed, the ones who want to put you in a box and define you and deny your choices because if you succeed at your choices it forces them to confront their own, very different choices. --
--I’m not foolish enough to say it’s true in all cases and all places, some creative folks have wonderfully supportive friends and family, and that’s terrific…but it *is* true in enough cases and places that it merits being said: that it’s okay to move toward your comfort zone--
-- if it gives you joy and enhances your art and understanding and long-term goals, even if that means pissing off people who don’t want you going out of *their* comfort zones. And this applies to arenas outside the purely creative, whether it’s pursuing love or careers --
or opportunities or embracing great personal changes. Comfort zones exist for a reason, same as comfort food. On the one hand you wouldn’t want comfort food every day, but every once in a while you have it for no other reason than it makes you feel good and happy and fulfilled--
--,and if your roommates don’t like it, the heck with them. So yes, sometimes you need to go outside your comfort zone, because it may help you grow. But that needs to be balanced by the equally valid fact that by god, sometimes you need to go toward that comfort zone and --
--embrace it, even if that means going beyond the borders of everybody *else’s* comfort zone. There, I said it, I’m glad I said it, and I’ll say it again if sufficiently provoked.