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		<title>Autumn Haiku</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 16:08:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neal Whitman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Neal Whitman I lay awake cold. My left thumb rests on my chin below chestnut moon. Neal Whitman is a member of the Yuki Teikei Haiku Society of San Jose and the Haiku Poets of Northern California. Though contemporaries vary the syllable count, he likes to stick to the traditional Japanese 5-7-5 structure. Kingyo [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who Gets the Last Laugh?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 04:54:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neal Whitman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Neal Whitman, Poetry Prof Last month we celebrated April Fools&#8217; Day with a tribute to the &#8220;Ern Malley&#8221; hoax. To recap: two poets, James McAuley and Harold Stewart, published poems they concocted under the name of Ern Malley. I learned of this gag when I decided to fill in a gap in my home [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Autumn Haiku, 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Apr 2012 09:41:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neal Whitman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Neal Whitman Autumn is a time to harvest pumpkins. How about a U.S. harvest of 1.5 billion pounds! Two hours north of me up California&#8217;s Highway One is a lovely coastal town, Half Moon Bay, home to the World Pumpkin Festival — its 40th will be held October 16 – 18. We kick off the season [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Year Haiku</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2012 00:12:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neal Whitman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Neal Whitman first dream of New Year&#8211; five ships at rest on cradles came ashore last night Neal Whitman is a member of the Yuki Teikei Haiku Society of San Jose and the Haiku Poets of Northern California. Neal provides us with five seasonal haiku a year; in the Japanese tradition, New Year is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It Might Have Started in 1582</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Apr 2012 04:49:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neal Whitman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Neal Whitman, Poetry Prof Yes, it might have been the year that the Gregorian Calendar was introduced and New Year&#8217;s Day was moved from April 1 to January 1. News traveled more slowly back then and folks who still got the day wrong were said to be fools. A wonder of the Internet is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spring Haiku, March, 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2012 01:47:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neal Whitman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Neal Whitman March Madness! For many of you, those words bring to mind how wild and woolly the weather can be. The calendar says &#8220;First Day of Spring,&#8221; but you are not ready to fold and put away the extra blanket you spread over the bed last November. For gamblers, March Madness means point [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Haiku: oooh … aaah!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2012 13:01:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neal Whitman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Neal Whitman, Poetry Prof Something new this month: footnotes. Not to worry. Nothing here will be on &#8220;The Test.&#8221; It is just that this month&#8217;s profession of what I believe requires a little documentation to credit others. Next month I will return footnote-less and footloose. In the 18th century, while Yosa Buson, dubbed &#8220;Poet [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Just a Suggestion, Okay?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 05:44:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neal Whitman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Neal Whitman, Poetry Prof Can we talk? No, let&#8217;s not of graves, of worms, and epitaphs (Richard II, Act III, scene 2), but of editors. Dateline. August 22, 2011: I emailed ten tanka to a journal. Tanka, if you do not know, are five-line poems. November 28: two days before the journal was due [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On the Bluff</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 17:44:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>D.S.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Neal Whitman mist settles on the soft harbor surf sounding gentle ship horn and seal bark in rain on shore under fog we know they are there four buoys below no one on shore but gulls]]></description>
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		<title>A New Year … A New Poet</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 05:03:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neal Whitman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Neal Whitman, Poetry Prof Greek philosopher, Heraclitus (535 &#8211; 475 BCE) is famous for one of the most quoted statements in the history of Western Civilization: &#8220;No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it is not the same river and he is not the same man. ” I am not the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Year&#8217;s Haiku 2012</title>
		<link>http://shortpoem.org/new-years-haiku-2012/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 05:01:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neal Whitman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Neal Whitman, Poetry Prof Last year, my seasonal haiku started with roving in a basket that would turn into a scarf. This morning I walked into town with it wound round my neck –– No! Not the roving. The scarf. What&#8217;s new this year? This haiku is inspired by my friend, Richard Platt, whose [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Acrostic Ballad of the Sleeping Gypsy</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Dec 2011 13:36:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neal Whitman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Neal Whitman Gypsy music in a dream Attracts a lion to man and mandolin Rousseau inspires the poet to capture Contours of a ballad in crystalline color It is a dark mysterious song A distant murmur under the moon. &#8220;Let me climb On the mountain, mountain Rumors of warm dawn Come through the olive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Winter Haiku 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 05:28:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neal Whitman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Neal Whitman, Poetry Prof Okay, dear readers, I admit it. Sometimes I &#8220;make up&#8221; my haiku –– that is, offer images I imagined. But, this morning, on my &#8220;crack of dawn&#8221; round of golf, here on the California Central Coast&#8217;s Monterey Peninsula, I witnessed this. a flock of coots with them ahead of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spring Haiku</title>
		<link>http://shortpoem.org/spring-haiku-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 02:54:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neal Whitman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Neal Whitman The Vernal Equinox — This year, a Saturday — 10:32 Pacific Standard Time — In your Time Zone, how about picking that same moment to find a green spot and lie on your back? the breeze a soft kiss house finches lacing the air my sweater a pillow]]></description>
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		<title>Spring Haiku</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 01:47:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neal Whitman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Neal Whitman a young house sparrow sits in the empty bird bath early morning rain Neal Whitman is a member of the Yuki Teikei Haiku Society of San Jose, the Haiku Poets of Northern California, and the Haiku Society of America. Though contemporaries vary the syllable count, he likes to stick to the traditional [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Written in Stone</title>
		<link>http://shortpoem.org/written-in-stone/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 04:45:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neal Whitman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Neal Whitman, Poetry Prof My Poetry Prof essay was &#8220;in the can,&#8221; that is, ready to send to the queue to be published per the 1st of the month schedule we have adhered to since its inception. I will save that one for next month. For the record, the inaugural essay that welcomed readers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ode to Micro Poetry: More than May Meet the Eye</title>
		<link>http://shortpoem.org/ode-to-micro-poetry-more-than-may-meet-the-eye/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Oct 2011 04:45:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neal Whitman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Neal Whitman, Poetry Prof Less than 8 inches. The micro-skirt. Shorter than a mini-skirt. A brief word this month on poetical equivalents. We could say that the Japanese tanka form of five lines is the mini-skirt of poetry. Both aim to cover what is substantial, but nothing more. Likewise the micro-skirt and haiku push the &#8220;less [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Autumn Haiku</title>
		<link>http://shortpoem.org/autumn-haiku-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2011 04:58:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neal Whitman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Neal Whitman, Poetry Prof This year the autumn equinox occurs on September 23 in my Time Zone (Pacific) at 2:05 A.M. For reasons way above my pay grade, in the Northern Hemisphere, the actual even split of 12 hours of day and night happens a few days later. This month, of course, marks a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Summer Haiku, 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:17:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neal Whitman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Neal Whitman Sumer Is icumen in… yes, summer has arrived. To be accurate: at 10:28 a.m. in my time zone (Pacific). Summer seems to me the least complicated of the seasons. It is elemental: unlimited poetry in its simplicity. I expect nothing. Of course, nothing is worth expecting. summer&#8217;s arrival the door bell rings [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mini Ode to the Sea Gull</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2011 04:40:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neal Whitman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Neal Whitman, Poetry Prof Editor Vinnie Kinsella of Four and Twenty recommended to me a book that changed how he looked at short poetry: Joshua Beckman&#8217;s Your Time Has Come. As an aside, on his website, Kinsella explains that his journal &#8220;publishes the shortest of short form poetry… Our guidelines are simple. All poems [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Poetry Is My Profession</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Aug 2011 07:07:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neal Whitman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Neal Whitman I profess to come and go as I please. Come to a place where my mind and heart are open to what is true. Go somewhere before or after words take place. I profess to take the time and make the space for poetry to happen. Take the time to breathe. Make [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One Poet&#8217;s Aphorism Is Another One&#8217;s Epigram</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Aug 2011 05:30:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neal Whitman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Neal Whitman, Poetry Prof Last spring, The Academy of American Poets got me thinking about two short –– very short –– forms: aphorisms and epigrams. To wit, poet Sharon Dolin, wrote a wonderful article in American Poet, &#8220;Making a Space for Aphorism,&#8221; in which she says that she thinks of aphorisms &#8220;as small journeyings [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Twice Bold Tale</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2011 04:48:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neal Whitman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Neal Whitman, Poetry Prof Something I love about poetry is being a member of a big family. In part, this is made possible by the Internet. Do you remember &#8220;pen pals&#8221; back in grade school? In the 4th grade I exchanged two or three letters with a boy my age in Brazil. Now I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Summer Haiku, 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jun 2011 05:22:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neal Whitman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Neal Whitman Due to its concision, there are those who believe haiku is a lesser poem, others a greater poem. As for me, haiku is a &#8220;just right&#8221; poem and the start of summer a &#8220;just right&#8221; season. Thoreau wrote that June was &#8220;the month of grass and leaves,&#8221; and Emerson spoke of its [...]]]></description>
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		<title>1 Day, 4 elements</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jun 2011 07:51:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neal Whitman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Neal Whitman Wood   ash slat boardwalk welcomes waking walkers. The wee waking hour. Fire    midday heat. Sip ice tea with old friend. Rest, then talk. He&#8217;s right. Earth    late afternoon. With sun low on deep bay. pelicans ride wind waves home. Metal    evening song. Coots find their way into reeds [...]]]></description>
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