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Tag Archives: 5-7-5
the unfinished business of the book project: peculiar 5-7-5s & other imaginings
The book project that I have last written about here: Peculiar Speed of the 5-7-5s is now more or less completed, and a PDF eBook is being made available to interested readers on this site’s bookshelf. As it turns out, … Continue reading
enchanted
‘nice to see, nice to hold, once broken, considered sold.’ — anonymously printed on a signboard at a borders store spells to sell modern magic spells, flasks of fortune to dispense ancient human greed stir up the cauldron, lift … Continue reading
Posted in haiku, poetry
Tagged 5-7-5, appetite, borders, consumerism, enchantment, greed, modernity, sale, spells
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Peculiar Speed of the 5-7-5s
In a parallel universe, I would have been a prolific writer, churning out, day and night, streams of prose and poetry, and kilometric reams of novels and essays, you would wonder if I ever stop for anything, if I ever … Continue reading
Posted in about me, book, fiction writing, haiku, nature, photography, poetry
Tagged 5-7-5, book, family, work, writing
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last man standing
last man standing under the moon this day each day the clock reminds my eyes are tired as if i do not know, the dark room unclasps me into the dusk to grapple with bleary visions of tomorrow, i am … Continue reading
Posted in haiku, photography, poetry
Tagged 5-7-5, AMOLED, car, car parks, clock, drudgery, empery, gloom, iEye, last man standing, melancholy, moon, poetry, story, tides, trickles, uncompromising, wall
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the unshining
the unshining there were these smart crows who picked open the house locks, and watched late night shows. © said sadain, jr. 2018 Author’s Note: If you’ve seen that 1980 movie of Stanley Kubrick, The Shining, then you would already … Continue reading
Posted in haiku, poetry, politics
Tagged 5-7-5, crows, dumb, dumbing down, late night shows, smart, stanley kubrick, television, the shining, the unshining
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a wordy haiku?
word power words are mighty source of both understanding and misunderstanding. © said sadain, jr. 2018
Posted in haiku, poetry, politics
Tagged 5-7-5, haiku, mighty, misunderstanding, nuances, poem, power, responsibility, understanding, words
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a crabby haiku
of crabs and mentalities why do you get blamed for their own mentalities? o crab, you’re just fine. © said sadain, jr. 2018
Posted in haiku, nature, poetry, politics
Tagged 5-7-5, crab, crab mentality, haiku, poem
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the damas trees of sitteen
the damas trees of sitteen green conocarpus dinosaurs lined up in mid island of sitteen silent witnesses to the flow of red-tailed worms this side of the world
Posted in essay, haiku, photography, poetry, politics
Tagged 5-7-5, conocarpus lancifolius, damas tree, dinosaurs, driving, Godzillas, greening, jeddah, landscape, road, Saudi Arabia, Sitteen Road, street, surreal, traffic
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Peculiar 5-7-5s and their imaginings
The book project I mentioned previously (in The Lives Words Live) is taking shape slowly but surely.
Posted in book, essay, haiku, photography
Tagged 5-7-5, computer, imaginings, layered, layers, technology, the shot
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