Where have all the poets gone?

[Marjorie]

I would be very happy to receive some good, new Monhegan poems.[/i]

[Marjorie]

I should have said that many of the latest poems posted have ben recycled ones from previous years. They are wonderful and well worth re-reading, but new ones would be more than welcome. Peter has suggested that Poet's Cove readers try their hands at haiku (three lines, fourteen syllables, nature (and Monhegan) related.

[dls]

What a wonderful idea - I have just "Googled" Haiku and found a comprehensive teaching site for the ancient Japanese form, whose syllables apparently range from 11 to 17. However, the basic idea is simplicity - a short poem that is "like a breath." I love that... I have a little book that Marjorie Pratt gave me years ago, still packed away from a recent move. It sat on my desk for twenty-five years-plus and it was Marjorie's own Haiku...gentle as she was and also as wise. Next rainy day (tomorrow?) I will sit and study the form and hopefully be able to write, even if only from memory.