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Tag: erasure haiku

Posted on May 16, 2013December 23, 2014 by Dave Bonta

Stood Up

erasure of a page from Samuel Pepys' diary

Wine while I wait,
scarlet clothes like feathers
in the portmanteau.


Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Wednesday 16 May 1660.

Posted on February 20, 2013December 23, 2014 by Dave Bonta

Digger

erasure of a page from Samuel Pepys' diary

West wind on the marsh.
A general in the wars
out getting vines to pot.


Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Monday 20 February 1659/60.

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Via Negativa is a unique experiment in daily, poetic conversation with the living and the dead. Dave Bonta founded the site in 2003 and Luisa A. Igloria joined in 2010. Guest authors contribute as well. Dave writes daily erasure poems to discover the poetry hidden in the Diary of Samuel Pepys. Luisa has been writing and posting a poem a day since November 2010, often in response to Dave’s entries at The Morning Porch. Collections of poems first published at Via Negativa include Luisa’s The Buddha Wonders if She is Having a Mid-Life Crisis and Ode to the Heart Smaller than a Pencil Eraser, and Dave’s Ice Mountain and Breakdown: Banjo Poems. Read more…

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