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The Edge by Robert Creely , American Poet (1926 - 2005) Long over whatever edge, backward a false distance, here and now, sentiment — ...

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This place is a dream only a sleeper considers it real. Then death comes like dawn, and you wake up laughing at what you thought was your gr...

  ....still working on a new book of haiku, though we've had a mild winter here in Western Canada

 

  “Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot,  nothing is going to get better. It’s not.”  — The Lorax by Dr Seuss Marie Bortolotto

Toshi Tsuchitori plays ancient Japanese Bronze Bells

Urban Jungle by Marie Bortolotto Wild-mouthed, a dog whines in swelling octaves. A garbage truck crouches over its prey. Squabbling children...

From "A Handful of Poem-Images" by Marie Bortolotto A Lost Key We dance in a line of pigeons; and crows, 
noisily, flapping wings ...

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Stay alive; at least for the moment:it doesn't last long.  Stay alive. Other worldly considerations though are out. The living has nothi...

 Wind Shinkichi Takahashi (translated by Lucien Stryk) Give it words, Stick limbs on it, You won't alter essence. Whereas the wind -- I...

One Character Poem by He Peiyu, female poet of the Qing Dynasty  A flower, a willow, a fishing rock, A streak of setting sun, a bird in flig...

One-Line Poem-Image Marie Bortolotto trudging through 
the weight of wet snow 
birds in flight  Marie Bortolotto Art

  1/ Flower Dreams are severed fruit Auburn pears have fallen in the field Parsley blooms on the plate The leghorn at times seems ...

"Thoughts of the Heart"  Marie Bortolotto Art 2026

Today I am inspired by the Paracelsus quote in James Hillman's book "The Thought of The Heart And The Soul of The World" (Spri...

  Short Verse by Marie Bortolotto cold sunshine the persistent tweets of a solitary sparrow

Instruments of a Beating Heart by Ema Ryan Yamazaki on Vimeo Short Verse by Marie Bortolotto   all that remains of a child's clarinet p...

A haiku book in progress... Haiku in the Time of Winterberries by Marie Bortolotto

Haiku Sketches:  300 One Line Zen-Inspired Poems Available now on Amazon!

  Under the trees, among the rocks, a thatched hut: verses and sacred commentaries live their together. I'll burn the books I carry in m...

  Haiku Sketches  © by Marie Bortolotto 300 One-Line Zen-Inspired Poems Available Now on Amazon!  Haiku Sketches  ©  by Marie Bortolotto Art...

consider me as one who loved poetry and persimmons - Masaoka Shiki (1867 - 1902) Marie Bortolotto

Marie Bortolotto Art One Line Poem by Marie Bortolotto yellow leaves raining down empty swings

The Meaning of Existence (2002) by Les Murray Everything except language knows the meaning of existence. Trees, planets, rivers, time know n...

 One Line Haiku by Marie Bortolotto   dried leaf fading between pages red

One Line Haiku Poem by Marie Bortolotto morning the pine tree bereft of whispers

  from Birds. Art. Life. by Kyo MacLear   "...except this simple secret: if you listen to birds, everyday will have a song in it....

Everything just as it is, just as it is, as it is, as is.   Flowers in bloom. Nothing to add. - Robert Aitken.  Marie Bortolotto