#lockdown haikus

[haikulibrary]

Webcast funeral, Prerecorded eulogy. So inadequate.

(Written in 2020 for Leafcutter John's Lockdown Patchwork.)

#haiku #original haiku #funeral #grief #lockdown #haikulibrary

[wynrossouwsblog]

Lockdown Day 996 ... At day’s end you came, and like the evening sun, left an afterglow.” ... Haiku by Basil Swift. 🧡

[peaamlipoetrydoctor]

Stepping through my post-doc archive: Jan 2022

So January was when I decided I should probably keep track of the things I'd been working on, which, according to my wee bibliography-of-me is as follows for 2021 into Jan 2022 -

Aamli, P. (2021a). Working through climate grief: A poetic inquiry (unpublished doctoral dissertation). Hult Ashridge Executive Education. Also available under “supervised theses” at: https://www.drstevemarshall.com/writing

Aamli, P. (2021b). Lockdown [Poem]. Allegro Poetry Magazine, 26(March). https://www.allegropoetry.org/p/issue-26-march-2021.html

Aamli, P. (2021c, April 08). I come from [Poem]. Dissonance Magazine, (NaPoWriMo series). https://www.dissonancemagazine.co.uk/zine/i-come-from

Aamli, P. (2021d, April 25). Rage is the thing with wings [Poem]. NaPoWriMo (Day25, co-featured poem). Retrieved on April 25, 2021 from https://www.napowrimo.net/day-twenty-five-7/

Aamli, P. (2021e, May 31). Small talk [Poem]. Shot Glass Journal (online literary poetry magazine, focusing on short verse), 34 (May issue).

Aamli, P. (2021f, July). The midnight hush [Poem / finalist]. Twelve ‘o clock poetry competition: Anthology. Wingless Dreamer.

Aamli, P. (2021g). Spring equinox in Leeds [Poem]. Allegro (online literary poetry magazine), 27 (September).

Aamli, P. (2021h, August 31). Dawn boat [Haiku]. South Wales Evening Post: Haiku of the day (Jim Young, Ed.).

Aamli, P. (2021i). The postman’s park [Poem]. In Between The Lines 2021: An anthology of creative writing. City Lit.

Aamli, P. (2021j, October 08). Sunset [Poem] Paddler Press, 2 (“Roots & wings”). https://paddlerpress.ca/issues-trip-log/

Aamli, P. (2021k, October 08). Before lockdown, I used to walk to work [Poem /nominated for a Pushcart Prize, 2021] Paddler Press, 2 (“Roots & wings”). https://paddlerpress.ca/issues-trip-log/

Aamli, P. (2021l, October 08).  VE fly-by as London unwinds out of lockdown[Poem] Paddler Press, 2 (“Roots & wings”). https://paddlerpress.ca/issues-trip-log/

Aamli, P. (2021m, October). Hope in mid-winter [Poem]. Decembré poetry competition: Anthology. Wingless Dreamer.

Aamli, P. (2021n, November). To my executors [Poem / finalist]. In M. Malamud, Ed., The art of death: Literary taxidermy competition 2021, p. 29. First Regulus Press.

Aamli, P. (2021o, November 28). Standing alone in the rain [Poem]. In The water episode (season 3, episode 10): Poetry on the theme of lakes, rain, the sea. Blue Door to the Cosmos. https://audioboom.com/posts/7987450-the-water-episode-poetry-on-the-theme-of-lakes-rain-the-sea-soft-spoken-poetry-to-hel

Aamli, P. (2021p, December 08). If nothing we do matters [Advent blog series, day 8]. EpicHR. https://epichr.co.uk/2021/12/08/adventblogs-if-nothing-we-do-matters/

Aamli, P. (2022a, January 01). Consider the foxglove [Poem]. The Tiger Moth Review 7, p. 63-64. https://www.thetigermothreview.com/issue-7

Aamli, P. (2022b, January 27). It does not say RSVP on the Statue of Liberty [Poem]. Freezeray Poetry, issue 21. http://www.freezeraypoetry.com/paula-aamli.html

And of all these pieces, I've decided to re-include Consider the Foxglove, which was published in Jan 2021 by Tiger Moth Review (with some small tweaks to make it easier to read) and subsequently included in my pamphlet, A Lockdown London Life...

CONSIDER THE FOXGLOVE

A Golden Shovel

My initial excitement at working there is

gone, obliterated by compromises. A

harsh critic of my life might define

this discomfort as envy, a failure to fine-

sse my way past the point that deline-

ates deciders from decided-abouts. Between

these two realms is a vast chasm and I a-

gree, younger me longed to live in clover

with the higher-ups. Now I understand,

even my own middling life looks like a

fantasy. Random chance was my friend.

Today, in mid-life, in central London, I stand

staring at the plants in our garden. There's

a foxglove exploding with purple bells, so a-

live. All week I have watched it unfurl its fine-

ery, slowly stretching from the leafine-

ss of its broad base, up towards the blue line

of the sky. In the brief beat between

glory and decay is this plant's reality.

Its whole point of being is to be, and

this is what I envy. Whilst I pretend

to be at peace, I have lost faith in the grand

unfurling of purpose through history. You-

th wants so much, strives so much and never

believes in age, death or failing. You know

that's how youth is supposed to be, still

certain of a place in the unfolding story. You-

th's future is a promise we should not breach

but our youth see an end approaching. The-

y know we will have to teach ourselves to stop

choking the ocean and uprooting the trees. If

the old story of repentance was ever true, it

is surely true today. Is there a way to was-

h our carbon sins away? That would be worth

the cost of conversion. Can we change the

course we have been setting? An up-hill

path, steepening the more we resist the climb.

I am encouraged by the rising clamour. There's

“boardroom chit-chat” about nature, perhaps a

sign of hope, whatever the motivation. Fine

if capitalism "saves the planet", if we confine

the level of pay-off flowing to the rich? Holine-

ss has always been a negotiation between

need and expectation. And still the foxglove

continues to unfurl, to make its brief stand,

stretching vainly to connect earth and sky. A

yearly ritual in which Nature happily waste

s energy from the sun on this brief burst of

life-becoming-compost. And tell me, at your

own end, will you account so well for your time?

[overlooked-tracks]

Baker Boy Talks Debut Aussie BBQ Performance for New York’s SummerStage: ‘I Get to Share Not Only My Music, But Also My Culture’

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“From The Billboard Magazine Website – Baker Boy Talks Debut Aussie BBQ Performance for New York’s SummerStage: ‘I Get to Share Not Only My Music, But Also My Culture’”

Sounds Australia has once again teamed up with New York City’s Capital One City Parks Foundation SummerStage for the annual Aussie BBQ. For the first time in three years (waylaid since 2019 due to the pandemic), the showcase of new and rising Australian talent will take over Central Park this Saturday from 3-10pm with performances from Baker Boy, Electric Fields, G Flip, Haiku Hands, Peking Duk and You Am I.

Pandemic related lockdowns have deprived American audiences of live talent from Australia and the country’s rising stars are more than eager to make their U.S. debuts.

Indigenous Australian rapper Baker Boy is using his trip to play his first headlining gig – a June 14 show at Los Angeles’ Moroccan Lounge – and then head to New York for the showcase. Performing at the Aussie BBQ “is really incredible because I get to share not only my music, but also my culture,” Baker Boy tells Billboard, “not just as an artist from Australia but as an indigenous artist. That’s pretty amazing.”

In October, Baker Boy – who raps in both English and Yolŋu Matha of the indigenous people of northeast Arnhem Land in northern Australia – released his debut album Gela and has already racked up accolades including six ARIA nominations, an ARIA Gold certification for “Cool As Hell” and “Mr La Di Da Di,” six wins at the National Indigenous Music Awards and an Order of Australia medal.

The Los Angeles show was a success by the Australian artist’s standards who says the audience enjoyed the messaging around his music and “the whole vibe was really energetic. It made me so hype that I started to bust a move and doing the splits,” he adds.

This Saturday, Baker Boy will be joined by artists he’s come to call friends including Peking Duk and Electric Fields, who is says are like family. In 2021, Baker Boy also released track “My Mind” with fellow performer G Flip.

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G Flip, who moved to Los Angeles last year, also performed their first headlining U.S. show earlier this month at the iconic Roxy Theater in LA to a sold-out crowd. “Australia will always be home for me and I’m so stoked to be included in an event like this,” says G Flip of the Aussie BBQ. “I’m such a massive fan of all the Aussie legends on the lineup.”

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[lockdownhaikus]

Haiku 18

She cannot see your Lips through your mask and so she Cannot hear your words.

#covid-19 #lockdown haikus #disability #deaf #hard of hearing #lip reading #covidquarantine #mask #face mask #covid 19 #coronavirus #haiku #haikus #poetry #poems #poems on tumblr #haikus about lockdown #coronavid19 #poem

[stevepotterwrites]

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[journalofanobody]

Haiku

flower petals from the trees

litter the street where I walk,

pink here, yellow there

-- Michael Boiano

#Michael Boiano #haiku #lockdown break

[zoetrypoetry]

How 2 cages rabbits

Dream of life on grass again

Without a handler

#haiku #caged #covid #lockdown #poem #post #poet #self #solitude #self motivation

[ivors20]

Framed (a Haiku)

Framed (a Haiku)A painting is framed An artist assigns his name The creation claimed Ivor Steven (c) Sept 2021

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#Haiku #Lockdown #Photos

[haikulibrary]

Back window vista, Carpark treetops taunting me — So near yet so far.

(Written in 2020 for Leafcutter John's Lockdown Patchwork.)

#haiku #original haiku #lockdown #housebound #disability #haikulibrary

[rincondeltraidor]

corona tales 29

the first lockdown bluesevenings dwelt in google maps silence crept outside

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#attachment #city life #Coronavirus #Covid-19 #Google Maps #haiku #human nature #lockdown #loneliness #modern life #nostalgia #pandemic #poetry #poetry today #quarantine #short poetry #social commentary

[redleafhaiku]

Midnight oatmeal 

toasted marshmallow lockdown 

jam slow-motion blues. 

🍁 Red Leaf Haiku by © John Clark Helzer

#redleafhaiku #haiku #poetry #poem #philosophy #meditation #inspiration #lockdown #spilled ink #poets on tumblr

[mabhsavage]

Hermitage Haiku

Bathe in the white warmth Of words well met, for even The hermit has friends.

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[peaamlipoetrydoctor]

Stepping through my post-doc archive: Sept 2021

Just the one post in September - my contribution to the "Bubbles"-themed zoom conference convened by the Australian academics who have been meeting for some years to discuss Critical Autoethnography. They're meeting again this year - back in person - and I'm not yet ready to try to get myself on a plane.

Plus also, at the point that I would have had to put a proposal together, I wasn't sure that I had anything new to say.

I feel a bit differently about that right now, with the benefit of having "nothing to do" except write poems and inquire with people around questions of relevance to - action research, poetic inquiry, artful knowing, and autoethnography.

Still, no regrets - other than, this was a FANTASTIC EXPERIENCE in terms of the people I had chance to hear from and the tone of the presentations and interactions. I've labelled the folder where I put the bits and pieces ~ "Bubbles Conference THANK YOU AMAZING."

It's not that I *won't* travel overseas again - I mean, maybe I won't but it's not an ideological commitment - but I need a "good reason" and this wasn't it. Lucky as it turns out, since I'll be "at school" (at City University) and probably couldn't have gone anyway!

So, I've dropped in the link to my short presentation and below the video link, I've also put in my opening remarks...

Funny to me now that at the point of writing the proposal, I was still writing my journal responses as tanka (syllabic poetry, not unlike haiku but longer and rather more forgiving, in my experience).

Overall, though, the short Japanese-origin poetry forms are just not a set of forms that I feel particularly comfortable with - I have the strong sense that I've never quite "got to grips" with the sensibility.

And that was already becoming obvious to me by the time I actually wrote up my presentation - one of the main things I did was to switcheroo back from the tanka to finish with a pantoum (the same pantoum makes an appearance in my longer pantoum workshop).

Very noticeable, to me at least, is that I swerve away from reading the tanka aloud (they were no longer holding much meaning for me) and instead put the time into reading the pantoum - not a "great" poem, technically speaking, but a poem that "does a good job" of pointing towards some new kind of knowing. A poem that is valuable for its content and its role as a mile-marker, not as a "craft piece".

I want to start by thanking the conference organisers for the invitation and the “bubble” prompt – and to express my gratitude for the opportunity to participate alongside such interesting work – pushing the edges of what we can say about how we come to know.

My proposal was in the form of four tanka – sketching a simple line between the conf title and four fragmentary experiences, in recent lockdown, that contained bubbles.

My lockdown was boundaried – enhanced and enlivened – by being in the process of writing up my doctorate – and then by my viva – and corrections – and completion.

And I don’t want to say any of that without also saying –

I am childless, with minimal caring responsibilities and a partner who does the cooking. I was studying part-time whilst employed in a white collar job that I retained, and which switched immediately to remote working. I live in London, opposite two supermarkets. I have a room I use as a study, with a door that shuts. I can be alone, and in company.

Poetry wasn’t where I started in my doctoral work but soon became central to it. I want to talk about how poetry has been useful to ME in supporting inquiry that seeks to look closely at the interactions between my subjective life and my social realities, that seeks to remain open to wonder whilst also cultivating a critical, questioning stance.

Back to the “bubble” image: work that owns the ephemeral qualities of our lives, our experiences, our efforts without despairing about the transient nature of them. My own values are to be as revisionist-truthful as I can bear and while still having room for… Delight in the beauty of a sunset, a loving relationship, a well-crafted artwork.

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[stellasstones]

"Portrait" Love in the Time of Covid

“Portrait” Love in the Time of Covid

Very happy to have “Portrait,” my haibun paired with art by Maria Pierides, appear in Love in the Time of Covid: A Chronicle of a Pandemic. Many thanks to editor Michelle Elvy. To read, click here

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#haibun #haiku #lockdown #Maria Pierides #Painting #Parkinson&039;s #Portrait #published

[lockdownhaikus]

Haiku 34

London. Abandoned. No crowds. No queues. No shouting. A liminal space.

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