Posted in Family, Haiku, Holidays, Love, Photography, Practice, tagged fathers and daughters, Mother's Day, parenting, the practice of haiku on May 12, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Waiting for Dad, self-portrait of Jim with Em at school, photo © 2008 by Jim. All rights reserved.
my best mother’s day:
my mother, my daughter, and
a father who shares
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Posted in Art, Haiku, Photography, Place, Poetry, Practice, Seasons, Skies, Structure, tagged Alexander Calder, Minneapolis Sculpture Garden, spring in Minnesota, the practice of haiku, The Spinner, Walker Art Center on May 11, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Spinner, 1966, sculpture by Alexander Calder, Minneapolis Sculpture Garden near the Walker Art Center, May 2008, Minneapolis, Minnesota, photo © 2008 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
blue Midwestern spring
Calder’s spinner bobs and weaves
dancing with the wind
-posted on red Ravine, Sunday, May 11th, 2008
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Posted in Body, Bones, Culture, Death, Haiku, Holding My Breath, Obituaries & Epitaphs, Photography, Place, Poetry, Practice, Seasons, Spirituality, Wake Up, tagged Babyland, cemeteries, changing seasons, Chinese Community Memorial, gateways, history of Minneapolis, Lakewood Cemetery, Minneapolis, promise of Spring, the practice of haiku on May 9, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Gateways, Lakewood Cemetery near Lake Calhoun, Minneapolis, Minnesota, May 2008. Spring blooms in Babyland, near the Chinese Community Memorial. Photo © 2008 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
white-belled bleeding hearts
spring sweeps through silent gateways
cemetery pause
-posted on red Ravine, Friday, May 9th, 2008
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Posted in Architecture, Art, Books, Great Places To Write, Haiku, Photography, Place, Poetry, Practice, Skies, Structure, Writers, Writing, tagged cities, Fifth Street Towers, libraries, Minneapolis Central Library, Minneapolis Skyline, the practice of haiku on May 7, 2008 | 9 Comments »
Refraction, downtown Minnesota Central Library, March 2008, during Talk of the Stacks. Ali Selim and Will Weaver discussed the making of Sweet Land. The moment this photograph was taken, they were sitting to the left, signing books. The curved blue lines are the Fifth Street Towers. Photo © 2008 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
blue light [...]
Posted in Culture, Haiku, Money, On the Road, Photography, Place, Politics, Practice, Travel, Wake Up, tagged New Mexico culture, northern New Mexico, price of gas, the practice of haiku on May 1, 2008 | 14 Comments »
Pray for Gas, religious statues inside the stone pillar for the gas price sign at a gas station in northern NM, photos © 2008 by ybonesy. All rights reserved.
stop the wind, please stop
war, drought, hunger, judgment
drop the price of gas
nuestra señora
santo niño atocha
break us free from oil
exxon, conoco
profit from the rest of us
prisoners of war
4-plus [...]
Posted in Animals & Critters, Art, Doodling, Family, Haiku, Poetry, Seasons, Writing, tagged children's poetry, images of dogs, images of pugs, limericks, poems about dogs on April 23, 2008 | 40 Comments »
Sony Pepperoni, pen and ink on graph paper, doodle © 2008
by ybonesy. All rights reserved.
Em, my youngest daughter, has been reading and writing poetry all this month with her third-grade class. She wrote two limericks and one haiku, and she carried in her Poetry Book a poem called “My hobby” by Shel Silverstein. She read all [...]
Posted in Body, Bones, Culture, Death, Haiku, Life, Nature, Photography, Place, Poetry, Practice, Seasons, Silence, Spirituality, Taos, tagged 1 Year Anniversary of Virginia Tech, anniversaries, black & white photography, Georgia O'Keeffe, homage, Mabel Dodge Luhan House, Morada Walk, New Mexico, Penitentes, Taos Mountain, the practice of haiku, white cross on April 16, 2008 | 10 Comments »
Morada Walk, Taos Mountain in the background, white
cross Georgia O’Keeffe painted, Taos, New Mexico,
January 2003, Tri-X black & white film print, photo ©
2008 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
gusty April winds
ruffle brambled shoots of green
Spring bounds from behind
anniversaries
separate fiction from fact
squeeze light from the dark
photosynthesis
through veins of a single leaf
gives life to the world
-posted on red Ravine, [...]
Posted in Everyday Art, Haiku, Photography, Place, Poetry, Practice, tagged Casket Arts Building, floors, rectangular mandalas, red, the practice of haiku on April 12, 2008 | 4 Comments »
In The Red, original floor sign, Casket Arts Building, Minneapolis,
Minnesota, April 2008, photo © 2008 by QuoinMonkey. All rights
reserved.
keep clear, walk the red
rectangular mandala
standing dead center
-posted on red Ravine, Saturday, April 12th, 2008
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Posted in Everyday Art, Haiku, Laughing, Nature, Photography, Poetry, Practice, Seasons, tagged rubber stamp collection, the practice of haiku, tools of the trade on April 10, 2008 | 8 Comments »
Rubber Stamp, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 100-year-old maple floors of the Casket Arts Building, April 3rd, 2008, photo © 2008 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
ink covers rubber
thunder blizzard covers spring
paper covers wood
-posted on red Ravine, Thursday, April 10th, 2008
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Posted in Everyday Art, Haiku, Nature, Photography, Poetry, Practice, Seasons, Wake Up, tagged the practice of haiku on April 8, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Streaked Window, today’s view, photo © 2008 by ybonesy. All rights reserved.
there’s a tree outside
it has tiny yellow blossoms
glowing in the dark
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Posted in Haiku, Nature, Photography, Place, Poetry, Practice, Seasons, Silence, Skies, Taos, tagged New Mexico, Seasons, Taos Mountain, the practice of haiku on April 2, 2008 | 5 Comments »
descending, Taos Mountain in winter, Taos, New Mexico, C-41 color film print, January 2003, photo © 2003-2008 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
Taos Mountain sunset
holds a fading memory
yellow snaps of sage
-posted on red Ravine, Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
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Posted in Haiku, Holding My Breath, Life, On the Road, Photography, Practice, Skies, Things That Fly, Travel, tagged airplane shots, the practice of haiku on March 31, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Somewhere over Arizona, the flight home from California, photo (not taken with my cell phone camera) © 2008 by ybonesy. All rights reserved.
how come the return
is shorter than departure?
finally, exhaling
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Posted in Haiku, Holding My Breath, Nature, Photography, Place, Poetry, Practice, Seasons, Silence, Skies, tagged holding space, the practice of haiku, the sun, winter in Minnesota on March 26, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Holding Space, Minneapolis, Minnesota, February 2008, photo © 2008 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
lake frozen in place
yellow sun sinking behind
holding silent space
-posted on red Ravine, Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
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Posted in Haiku, Nature, Photography, Place, Poetry, Practice, Seasons, tagged cedars, changing seasons, the practice of haiku, trees on March 22, 2008 | 17 Comments »
Coming Up For Air, Minneapolis, Minnesota, March 2008, photo © 2008 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
buried in March snow
cedar branches flex and bend
coming up for air
-posted on red Ravine, Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
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Posted in Animals & Critters, Haiku, Holding My Breath, Nature, Photography, Poetry, Practice, tagged creepy crawlers, home remedies, spiders, the practice of haiku on March 21, 2008 | 37 Comments »
big spider, Rock Creek Regional Park, Maryland,
photo © 2008 by R3. All rights reserved.
bugs, bugs everywhere
why do we invade their world
swirling stick circles
4 or 5 inch legs
webmaster spins silken tales
spider sense prevails
-posted on red Ravine, Friday, March 21st, 2008
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Posted in Gratitude, Haiku, Nature, Photography, Poetry, Practice, Seasons, Wake Up, tagged changing seasons, spring equinox, the practice of haiku on March 20, 2008 | 22 Comments »
Sun! Thank You!, Albuquerque, New Mexico, July 2007, photo © 2008 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
dark in a half light
seed buds pull out of hiding
snowless sun, thank you
-posted on red Ravine, Spring Equinox, Thursday, March 20th, 2008
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Posted in Haiku, Nature, Photography, Place, Poetry, Practice, Seasons, tagged change of seasons, the practice of haiku, trees on March 18, 2008 | 14 Comments »
March Leaves, Minneapolis, Minnesota, March 2008, photo © 2008 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
wet snow and brown leaves
chase the budding potential
rivers through gutters
-posted on red Ravine, Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
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Posted in Animals & Critters, Haiku, Nature, Photography, Seasons, Wake Up, tagged Baby the bullsnake, pet bullsnake, snake on March 14, 2008 | 17 Comments »
Baby Bath, Baby the Bullsnake taking a bath the first day she comes out of hibernation, photos © 2008 by ybonesy. All rights reserved.
coiled in water
baby awakens with flair
winter has ended
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Posted in Everyday Art, Gratitude, Haiku, Photography, Poetry, Practice, Quotes, Seasons, Spirituality, Wake Up, tagged Dogen, Moon in a Dewdrop, promise of Spring, the practice of haiku, The time being, Zen on March 12, 2008 | 14 Comments »
Taste Of Things To Come, Minneapolis, Minnesota, June 2007, photo © 2008 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
moon in a dewdrop
gratitude to ybonesy
deep bows to the spring
An ancient buddha said:
For the time being stand on top of the highest peak.
For the time being proceed along the bottom of the deepest ocean.
For the time being three heads and [...]
Posted in Haiku, Nature, Photography, Poetry, Practice, Seasons, Skies, tagged sunsets, the movement of time, the practice of haiku, trees on March 9, 2008 | 12 Comments »
Ask, Oak, Cedar, Minneapolis, Minnesota,
March 2008, photo © 2008 by QuoinMonkey.
All rights reserved.
time crawls, sweeps sunset
off branches of winter dew
ash, oak, and cedar
-posted on red Ravine, Sunday, March 9th, 2008
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Posted in Architecture, Haiku, Photography, Place, Poetry, Practice, Seasons, Structure, tagged Midtown Exchange, Midtown Global Market, Minneapolis, Nightshots, Sears tower, the practice of haiku on March 8, 2008 | 35 Comments »
Midtown, Minneapolis, Minnesota, March 8, 2008, photo
© 2008 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
brisk walk through the cold
passing poets on the way
dinner at Midtown
-posted on red Ravine, Saturday, March 8th, 2008
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Posted in Bones, Haiku, Nature, Photography, Place, Poetry, Practice, Seasons, Writers, tagged ice, leaves, Nature's secrets, the practice of haiku, tracks, unearthing old bones, winter in Minnesota on March 6, 2008 | 13 Comments »
Tracks, Minneapolis, Minnesota, February 2008, photo © 2008 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
March winds rock the house
the writer sits at her desk
unearthing old bones
-posted on red Ravine, Thursday, March 6th, 2008
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Posted in Haiku, Nature, Photography, Place, Poetry, Practice, Seasons, tagged February Snow Moon, moondog haiku, the practice of haiku on March 1, 2008 | 7 Comments »
MoonDog, Minneapolis, Minnesota, photo © 2008 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
February moon
high over Medicine Lake
hides from the shadows
-posted on red Ravine, Saturday, March 1st, 2008
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Posted in Art, Body, Haiku, Poetry, Practice, Topic Writing, Writing, tagged Mano Poderosa, Omnipotent Hand, writing about risk on February 26, 2008 | 22 Comments »
Mano Poderosa (Omnipotent Hand), gouache painting and etching
on wood, retablo © 2008 by ybonesy. All rights reserved.
heart to head to hand:
what am i willing to bleed?
the risk of writing
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Posted in Art, Haiku, Holding My Breath, Nature, Photography, Place, Poetry, Practice, Seasons, Secrets, Things That Fly, Wake Up, tagged Audio Art, Nature's secrets, recording nature, sound technology, the practice of haiku, the sound of snow and ice, winter in Minnesota on February 24, 2008 | 10 Comments »
Snow Flying On Ice, Minneapolis, Minnesota, February 2008, photo © 2008 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
thick lumbering lake
bristles at the crackling sound
snow flying on ice
Lake Ice Booming - 1min
Recorded by Audio Producer/Editor/Mixer, Curt Olson at Track Seventeen
More sounds of Winter at: The Sound of Snow and Ice - Various Artists at Gruenrekorder
-posted on red Ravine, [...]
Posted in Animals & Critters, Haiku, Photography, Poetry, Practice, tagged paw prints, raccoons, the practice of haiku on February 20, 2008 | 14 Comments »
Printmaking (Raccoon), Minneapolis, Minnesota, February 2008, photo © 2008 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
inhaling the cold
raccoon paws melt into prints
fall between the cracks
-posted on red Ravine, Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
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Posted in Haiku, Nature, Photography, Place, Poetry, Practice, Seasons, Wake Up, tagged circles, the practice of haiku, winter in Minnesota on February 16, 2008 | 12 Comments »
Circles On Circles, Minneapolis, Minnesota, February 2008, photo © 2008 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
the pond from the house
shadows of living trees, ice
circles on circles
-posted on red Ravine, Saturday, February 16th, 2008
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Posted in Body, Bones, Haiku, Holding My Breath, Nature, Photography, Poetry, Practice, Seasons, tagged cattails, the practice of haiku, winter in Minnesota on February 13, 2008 | 11 Comments »
Cattail Sun, -25 wind chilled February day, Minneapolis, Minnesota, photo © 2008 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
ears red from the wind
snow flies off frozen boot tips
cattail fluffs her hair
-posted on red Ravine, Wednesday, February 13th, 2008
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Posted in Body, Bones, Haiku, Holding My Breath, Nature, Photography, Place, Poetry, Practice, Seasons, Skies, Wake Up, tagged moonrise, the practice of haiku, winter in Minnesota on February 10, 2008 | 13 Comments »
Quarter Oak Sky, -25 wind chilled February day, Minneapolis, Minnesota, photo © 2008 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
quarter oak moonrise
behind a sliver of sky
holds bonechilling peace
-posted on red Ravine, Sunday, February 10th, 2008
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Posted in Body, Bones, Haiku, Nature, Photography, Poetry, Practice, Secrets, tagged midwinter blues, Northwestern Casket Arts Building, the practice of haiku, where safety hides on February 9, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Safety Hides, Northwestern Casket Arts Building wall sign, Minneapolis, Minnesota, November 2007, photo © 2008 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
tree swing rocks the snow
blizzard swirls on the blue deck
no safe place to hide
-posted on red Ravine, Saturday, February 9th, 2008
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Posted in Gratitude, Haiku, Nature, Photography, Place, Poetry, Practice, Seasons, Skies, Wake Up, Weather, tagged image of sunrise, new day, New Mexico sky on February 6, 2008 | 11 Comments »
A new day, detail of sun rising on an end-of-January morning, Rio Grande Valley clouds and sunrise in winter, photos © 2008 by Jim. All rights reserved.
yesterday it snowed
the earth knows how parched i’ve been
sun rises in my heart
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Posted in Haiku, Holding My Breath, Nature, Photography, Poetry, Practice, tagged Holding My Breath, Silence, turning of the seasons on February 4, 2008 | 23 Comments »
After The Storm, Holding My Breath Series, Minneapolis, Minnesota, March 2007, photo © 2007 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
snow on the blue porch
quiet, listening to silence
in a pregnant pause
-posted on red Ravine, Monday, February 4th, 2008
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Posted in Animals & Critters, Art of Rebellion, Haiku, Holidays, Laughing, Photography, Place, Politics, tagged famous Pennsylvanians, get out and vote, Groundhog Day, Punxsutawney Phil, Smith Lake Jake, the politics of groundhogs on February 2, 2008 | 94 Comments »
Walking The Susquehanna River, Central Pennsylvania, taking a walk with Mom on on her 70th birthday weekend, November 2007, photo © 2007 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
forget politics
cast your vote for the real deal
Punxsutawney Phil
-posted on red Ravine, Saturday, February 2nd, 2008, Groundhog Day
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Posted in Bones, Haiku, Nature, Photography, Poetry, Practice, Seasons, Silence, Skies, Wake Up, tagged Full Wolf Moon, haiku (one-a-day), January Full Moon, winter blues, winter haiku trilogy on January 22, 2008 | 54 Comments »
no room for the moon
when the crunch beneath a boot
sweeps the heart away
snow shovel cracks hard
sky blows 16mph
flashes of white sun
watchful brittle leaves
stone firepit silent, depressed
ten shadows of snow
-photographs, winter moon trilogy, part of the Lightpainting Series, January 2008, all photos © 2007 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
-posted on red Ravine, Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008
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Posted in 25 Things, Body, Bones, Books, Haiku, Labyrinths, Nature, Photography, Place, Poetry, Practice, Quotes, Seasons, Silence, Structure, Wake Up, Writers, Writing, tagged Basho, Beginner's Mind, Clark Strand, Ghost Ranch, haiku (one-a-day), haiku as practice, haiku walk, how to write haiku, meditation, Natalie Goldberg, Seeds from a Birch Tree, walking the labyrinth on January 15, 2008 | 303 Comments »
Skin Of A River Birch, Minneapolis, Minnesota, August 2007, photo © 2007 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
haiku (one-a-day)
This post was created for a very specific purpose: writing a haiku a day. Some of our readers have expressed an interest in haiku. And some have left haiku in our comments on various posts. I wanted to [...]
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