The Blue Bowl

Photo art – Don Baird.

POETRY CORNER

– 7/22/15

Don Baird

​in a blue bowl
glides a blue whale
not a sound
where my heart longs
for you in my dream

Don Baird (2009 Masters Hall of Fame) is a professional martial arts teacher and haiku poet. He is a simple person who looks at nature through the lens of poetry. His most recent books are Haiku – the Interior and Exterior of Being, 2014; and, Ink Zero (with Dr. Richard Gilbert), 2015.

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Kathy Uyen Nguyen

dappled shades
of this July afternoon
I sip the blue bowl
of silence
from my teacup

Kathy Uyen Nguyen lives in the Gulf Coastal region of Texas, USA where she passionately teaches yoga classes. She finds rhythm in breath, pain, health, and nature​. ​This poem she says, “stemmed from my meditative state after yoga and teaching. I felt like my breath was the key to open up my mind, heart, and soul​”​.

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Photo art – Don Baird.

Louis Osofsky

teeming
with life, this “blue marble”
framed by shorelines,
as if in darkness
our home exists

Louis Osofsky lives in Deva,​ Romania, where he makes a living as a freelance translator. He writes mainly in English, and loves to write tanka, haiku and sijo as well as to experiment with various Eastern and Western fixed form poetry genres.

*Photo Art by Don Baird. He simply adjusts the color saturation in his natural photos ​t​o exaggerate what is there.

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