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Sunday, April 11, 2010
chrysanthemum shrine, said Princess Haiku
chrysanthemum shrine offerings- a poet’s gold this flower a dream
a brave poet only would use chrysanthemum..or do I just mean it's a hard word for me to say? Nice little piece Diane. I like 'this flower a dream', kind of balances shrine in the first line.
Diane Dehler is a photographer and poet. Her flower photography has been featured on Haiga online and she has several thousand followers on facebook. Her multi-media video poem, "The Lotus" has received 3000+ views on youtube. As a poet she is known for her lyricism and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and was a finalist for the Anna Davidson Rosenberg Poetry Prizes 2016. She received a degree from the Creative Writing Program at San Francisco State University, receiving the Outstanding Student of the Year Award. She is an English Language poet in the international literary scene and; has been published in numerous poetry journals and three anthologies. Mostly recently she has published in, The Artemis Review, Cultural Weekly, Edgar Allan Poet, The Mas Tequila Review, The Criterion: An International Journal in English, Munyori Literary Review, The Taj Mahal Review, Truck, Deepwater Literary Journal, Moonbathing: A Journal of Women’s Tanka, Lummox Journal and poeticdiversity.
3 comments:
a brave poet only would use chrysanthemum..or do I just mean it's a hard word for me to say? Nice little piece Diane. I like 'this flower a dream', kind of balances shrine in the first line.
Thanks Writerman. I know what you mean about "chrysanthemum" though. It's a challenging flower to be in love with.
Lovely pic, and verse.
Is this one of yours, that you planted--I forget how long ago--last year? Beautiful.
And by the way, I wouldn't blame you for just going with "mums"...
;-)
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