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NaHaiWriMo 2012, Week One
February is National Haiku Writing Month - except it's international -
hosted on facebook, with prompts, by Michael Dylan Welch.
These are my efforts:
Feb. 1: apple
one bite
out of the apple
squirts juice
Feb. 2: boat
moored
three masts
moonlit
Feb 3: catfish
I cannot catch
the unseen catfish
in verse
Feb. 4: any kind of dog
small timberwolf
self-possessed as a cat
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Postscript to the Deception
This is an edited version of a recent comment to other online friends of Penelope (the girl we had believed dead).What we have experienced does seem to me to match the descriptions I found of behaviour which has come to be known as Munchausen by internet ( Read more... ) -
Help - information requested
Is there a way to block someone on LJ so they can't read even your public posts?
Someone whose own posts are really creepy and nasty just added me to their friends list. I don't want this person looking at anything I write - except maybe this.
Perhaps I should make this journal, like my other, Friends Only? -
Dear Hoaxer, thanks for the poems
‘I write very good poems / when people die,’ I declared recently. Those lines were the start of one such poem, one of several I wrote in mourning for an online friend who had died from a brain tumour not long after her 18th birthday. I also blogged about the experience, but have now removed those blogs.
I was not the only one intensely grieved, nor ( Read more... ) -
When People Die
I write very good poems
when people die.
Grief pulls them out of me.
And if there is grief
there might as well be poems,
turning a terrible event
to some kind of good account.
But I’d rather
still have those friends
than all the poems I wrote them. -
Forgive me, not feeling communicative
...since learning of my friend's death. Am reading, finding comfort in doing so, but can't rise to comments just now.