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Tissue Promises: 151 Haiku
Tissue Promises: 151 Haiku
Tissue Promises: 151 Haiku
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This volume collects over 150 haiku, roughly arranged by seasons and degrees to which they represent traditional forms. It does not restrict itself to the conventional 5-7-5 syllabic form (although many do follow that guideline) but instead concentrates on communicating image, emotion, and imagination. It is intended as both a sampling and an impetus for readers to try out their own poetic skills.

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Release dateSep 16, 2010
ISBN9781452342689
Tissue Promises: 151 Haiku
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Michael R. Collings

I am a professor emeritus of English at Pepperdine University in Malibu CA (although my retirement home is in southwestern Idaho). During my twenty-seven years at Pepperdine I taught everything from Freshman Composition to Advanced Grammar to Business Writing; from Survey of English Literature to Milton and the Epic; from Introduction to Creative Writing to Senior Seminars in Writing.Along the way, I discovered the joys of writing, not just to meet requirements for graduate degrees or to insure tenure, but for myself--saying things in a way that might make my thoughts more interesting for readers and thereby invite them back into the books I talked about. Most of my academic writing relates to authors I love: John Milton, the great 17th-century English poet, on the one hand; Stephen King, Orson Scott Card, Piers Anthony, and additional science fiction, fantasy, and horror writers on the other.But my real love now is creative writing: novels, short stories, and most especially poetry. My offerings range from the three-line haiku found in Tissue Promises to a 6,500-line epic, The Nephiad. And everything in between.Please let me know what you think at my website: http://www.starshineandshadows.com/

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    Tissue Promises - Michael R. Collings

    Contents

    Introduction: Limericks on Limericks

    Everyday

    Higher Education

    Mad Science

    Oh, You Animal!

    The March of History

    Novelists, Poets and Other Oddities

    Worlds Beyond

    On the Vagaries of Spelling and Pronunciation

    Not Quite So Nice

    Epilogue

    Other books by Michael R. Collings

    About the Author

    Introduction: Limericks on Limericks

    1.

    To limericks I am addicted

    (Others, more cruel, say afflicted)--

    Though my meter may bobble,

    My rhyme schemes may wobble,

    My passion can’t be contradicted.

    2.

    A limerick’s a blind fit of rhyme;

    It will hinder you, time after time

    From imagery dense

    Or pretense of sense--

    But when it clicks, it is simply divine.

    3.

    A limerick’s a quizzical verse

    To thought and to reason averse;

    But it marches its meter

    By gallon or liter

    Till the rhythm is finally dispersed.

    4.

    The limerick’s base rhythm is

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