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<\/p>\nIn more than 40 years’ work gathered here, Marcus has tried to capture the feeling of the eternal in a moment.<\/p>\n
Apart from the two main sections of poems in traditional (long) and modern (short) forms, this book contains a number of eye-opening travelogues where the poet’s notebook has served him as a camera.<\/p>\n
Marcus has taught Haiku at the University of Lugano under Professor Henri Van Praag, in his English language classes at the Balsemboom in Bruges, and at the Stockholm School of Economics, where his students learned to save words.<\/p>\n
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SIX MODERN HAIKU<\/strong><\/p>\n Dawn – An ice-cube White as flour – Lovingly A seagull dives All spring <\/p>\n HOT MORNING<\/strong><\/p>\n Market Square – Tourist-hunting Gazing upwards Selling white ladies<\/i> I stare at wispy girls Benches invite me Gone for ever A hungry mouth-organ His guitar gets angry – GUESS on her pink breast Carried away with the crowd – Homeward I drift 1400 Miniaturen In more than 40 years’ work gathered here, Marcus has tried to capture the feeling of the eternal […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-320","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.olioweb.me.uk\/marcus\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.olioweb.me.uk\/marcus\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.olioweb.me.uk\/marcus\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.olioweb.me.uk\/marcus\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.olioweb.me.uk\/marcus\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.olioweb.me.uk\/marcus\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.olioweb.me.uk\/marcus\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\na limitless supply
\nof free lighting.<\/p>\n
\nmelting in the blue –
\nsummer moon.<\/p>\n
\n<\/span>the baker’s
\nearly morning face.<\/p>\n
\n<\/span>she shows me them –
\nfirst wisteria buds.<\/p>\n
\n<\/span>downwards to sit
\non its own shadow.<\/p>\n
\n<\/span>and most of the summer
\nI wore her T-shirt.<\/p>\n
\na cool breeze
\nfans my face.<\/p>\n
\nhaiku camera
\nin hand.<\/p>\n
\nat a striking clock –
\nJapanese youngsters.<\/p>\n
\nthe red ice-cream van
\nparks in front of me.<\/p>\n
\nstaring at a horse –
\ncameras poised.<\/p>\n
\nfrom across the square
\nI’ll die reaching one.<\/p>\n
\nthe cool kids
\nphotographed here.<\/p>\n
\nmoans in the shadows
\nmore customers arrive.<\/p>\n
\nwhy don’t those Frenchies
\ntoss him a coin?<\/p>\n
\na suggestive word
\nin capital letters.<\/p>\n
\nthe unapproachable
\nAfrican beauty.<\/p>\n
\n<\/span>on heavy feet
\nfeeling a hundred.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"