A.C. Missias' Poetry Pages

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Haiku

1. I've broken the "serious" haiku down into chains of ten or so, for easier sampling (no particular theme to each grouping; mostly chronologic by writing). However, these have not been screened for my current assessment of them, and are largely a personal writing history, so let the reader beware--the chains get much better as you go along, and I'm only really willing to vouch for the steady quality of the last few chains....
   Last addition in August, 2000.

   chain #1	chain #2	chain #3	chain #4	chain #5
   chain #6	chain #7	chain #8	chain #9	chain #10
   chain #11	chain #12	chain #13	chain #14	chain #15
   chain #16	chain #17	chain #18	chain #19	chain #20
   chain #21	chain #22	chain #23	chain #24	chain #25
   chain #26	chain #27	chain #28	chain #29	chain #30
   chain #31	chain #32	chain #33

2. I also have some less serious haiku from previous eras in my haiku understanding. I would not endorse these as examples of the form (they are mostly various statements and observations in 17 syllables), but they may be entertaining in their own right.
   • a few clay-ku in honor of a friend's entry into pottery
   • a heap of seashell-related haiku inspired by a contest
   • a scattering of catku from various times
   • and some even less serious sexku
3. Here are also my few experiments with tanka, a longer form related to haiku
4. And finally, the haiku journal of my visit to Japan (summer, 1996) has been incorporated into the Shiki Internet Haiku Salon site, complete with links to related photos. Many thanks to Hiromi Inoue for his efforts in making those lovely pages!

Sonnets

Okay, so I like the challenge of constrained forms (but these are pretty old).

1. Saggitarious Trials
2. Sonnet to a Portuguese
3. The Caring Remains
4. and this one's a decima: In Springtime...

Other ACM poems

1. I Want a Blue Man
2. Slow Fall
3. modern geometry
4. In my dreams, I am Japan
5. lost and found
6. This fruitless pen
7. compression
8. ambivalence
9. Your Black Lace
10. Keening
11. Duskfall
12. a tribute to el nino
13. just the trees
14. caught up in your hair
15. a love poem
16. why write poetry?
17. from where I stand
18. Under Cover of Darkness
19. Black Friday
20. things seen and unseen
21. No reply
22. on the verge
23. Piano
24. Echoes of September
25. In a Different Light
26. More than I Wanted to See
27. wordless
28. cut off
29. finding a voice
30. reeling
31. Where'd you get that walk?
32. Not a suicide poem
33. head games
34. Barn Dust
35. critique
36. Defying Definition
37. Why sometimes I seem so scaley
38. how old times come back to visit
39. A letter to George
40. in the "stolen lines" section, we have:
    • Sometimes
    • Somewhere in Seattle in September
    • Blue Woman
    • putting the fangs on
    • rock, paper, scissors
    • the purple cat of ecstasy
    • for the soul of Tibet
    • Like driving through a floating world
    • the rock you ask about...
    • a song for salt
    • I Don't Dream, I Sleep
    • The Inadequate Lampshade
    • something of the wild
    • Begin with everything you can remember...
    • untitled
    • take two typos and call me in the morning
    • Written in Lights
    • planting wet pebbles
    • stealing paper back
    • hopefully this will not cause a problem
    • Write Me Another
    • keeping the hand of god of god in my pants
    • The You the Water Remembers
    • Sleeping With the Windows Open
    • housecleaning
    • Expecting Armani
    • this is my right foot, the left one having been run over
    • coffee culture
    • Just a typical kind of day
    • Almost Forgotten
    • Just a typical kind of day
    • Invasion of the Biddy Snatchers
41. an experiment in found poetry
42. more found poetry, on the life of an artist
43. yet another piece of found poetry, lame insults
44. a collaboration with ET: Night Clothes

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Selections from internet poets

with the disclaimer that these are not necessarily the best, nor perhaps even representative of their authors' styles, but merely highly worthy of reading.

1. The Burning (Huff)
2. Seduction (Huff)
3. Backhoe blues (mcn)
4. fuck you, my sister said (mcn)
5. Conjugality, or the generic sonnet (mcn)
6. Roll (mcn)
7. on the process of editing (mcn)
8. As the moon sets, a villanelle (mcn)
9. fire season (S.Brogan)
10. fuel shortage/snapped strings (Marie+Marek)
11. .....mrs.robinson..... (mere)
12. .....i feel a gentle bitterness..... (mere)
13. .....i could be a las vegas showgirl..... (mere)
14. CNN (mere)
15. .....your last breath was warm..... (mere)
16. the poet's house (Virgo)
17. The Mating Season for Ladders (Jenniffer Lesh)
18. worms (Eric Thomas)
19. Yous (Eric Thomas)
20. Forget Me (Scott Murphy)
21. Paper Wings (Tara Weber)
22. the morning had not come (jason murray)
23. the skip in the sound track (LeeAnn Heringer)
24. Far Enough (kim hodges)
25. Cold Season (kim hodges)
26. Before the Frost (Lorri Smith)
27. Ask Dr. Science (Caron Andregg)
28. What is it about us (Caron Andregg)
29. Coffee (fsc)
30. Lines Written After a Conversation With My Mother (Jerry Dreesen)
31. animal man (ray)
32. Polish jazz (Wlod)
33. another (Wlod)
34. don't you hear? (Wlod)
35. about rain (Deb)
36. Saving my ration of luck (Deb)
37. what goes around... (Janet Bernichon)
38. Otters (jenne)
39. Involution (jgardner)
40. the miracle of life and other arguments against dualism (Michelle Vessel)
41. Lime (Mike Dayoub)
42. Getting used to it (Mike Dayoub)
43. The Fall (Jennifer Ley)
44. NYC haiku (Paul Mena)

Snips from more famous poets

1. If Snakes Were Blue (Robert Penn Warren)
2. Indeed this very love (Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
3. Go from me (Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
4. Birthday Poem for My Grandmother (Sharon Olds)
5. Primitive (Sharon Olds)
6. Mending Wall (Robert Frost)
7. A Kiss (Deborah Garrison)

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