TRUE COLOURS
Solo Rengay
true colours—
the abstract painting
overpriced
an off-colour joke
from the psychiatrist
colouring
outside the lines
the kindergarten teacher
the realtor
talking too much
about local colour
hardly colourblind
the district attorney
technicolour sunset—
the photographer loads
another memory card
—from Rattle #47, Spring 2015
Tribute to Japanese Forms
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Michael Dylan Welch: “Why am I drawn to haiku and related Japanese poetry? Because I’ve always found short forms of poetry to be the most appealing, and haiku is the queen of short poetry. I write because I can’t help but share my passion for haiku (together with longer poetry). This is a chief motive behind my establishment of National Haiku Writing Month. Unfortunately, haiku is widely misunderstood and mistaught, so another reason I continue to write haiku, and write about it, is to help correct these misunderstandings.” (website)
