ED MARKOWSKI
Honeymoons, Meditations, Melons
Honey Moon
our
moans
glow
Meditation
every
…..breathwhispers
a
…sweetnothing
Honey Moon Memory
the wolves couldn’t
get a howl
in edgewise
Chatting at the Zen Café
silence
breaks
the
silence
Two Part Harmony on the Fourth of July
the
….starson
….herbik
….inithe
….stripeson
….awater
………………melon
Norb-Thank you for your posting of Markowski’s poems-Walt Whitman American English language and Basho form-a delightful combination! You are a master at bringing this poetic to our attention. Keep looking and we’ll keep discovering.
A Reader
Dear Norb, Ed Markowski is indeed challenging. Haiku, as I understand it, is meditative poetry, with a conscious observation followed by an intuitive/subconscious response. I feel like a Barbarian at the gates of Rome, when I say, that I find Markowski mostly obscure or difficult to appreciate. — because it is expressed through a missing linkage?Its either my pure naivete or the Barbarian at the gate–both would be accurate. Thanks, Phil Hansotia
Fabulous. The silences between words are incredibly important in poetry, especially this sort, of course. And it’s easy to get that Basho form wrong. Ed doesn’t.
Thanks for posting these, Norb. Ed Markowski is one of the true masters of American vernacular. I don’t know anyone who plumbs the depths with such regular-guy language as deeply as he does, or as entertainingly.