Mark Gilbert Archives - The Haiku Foundation

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Amanda White - bleakly beautiful: comments on "beyond the poems/beyond the battlefield/mother’s vacant gaze" — Arvinder Kaur

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Harrison Lightwater — a palette of pale golden dawn: commentary on "a haddock/poaching in warm milk/first light" by Al Peat.

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Mark Gilbert — fourteen billion years in an instant: comments on "fourteen billion years/that's all it took/to make today" by H. A. Sappho

Hello, and welcome to The Haiku Mixer! Come in, hang up your coat, and grab a drink (1). Out back, there are several walking paths through the tall grass (2) and morning glories (3) that lead to the koi pond…

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Matt Cariello — deducing a negative charge against a man's behaviour

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Mark Gilbert elaborates. Frog or toad? — we can't be sure

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Mark Gilbert - a Kerouac haiku still fresh and raw, but out of fashion

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Mark Gilbert uncovers the instinctive.

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November 20, 2020
Theresa Cancro
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Mark Gilbert finds chilling relevance.

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For Radhamani Sarma, the sacred and profane intersect.

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Radhamani Sarma envisions a world beyond.

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Mark Gilbert senses an inkling of hope.

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Welcome to re:Virals, The Haiku Foundation’s weekly poem commentary feature on some of the finest haiku ever written in English. This week’s poem was: winter fog / an old man turns back / into a tree — John McManus, The Heron’s Nest, Volume XIV:4. Rich Schilling finds more questions than answers: