Tis a strange month, March. Both Winter and Spring, cold and temperate, it transitions us from Death to Life, fallow to green. Depending upon the region, depending upon one’s position on this earth, by design or chance, this month will bring us all great changes. For Spinozablue, March brings us poetry by Virginie Colline, and …
Streetlight Tanka Pulse of lights he hops into a taxi to wherever she won’t be too tall an order the city whispers Giant daisies yellow glow the streetlamps dance before his very eyes he kisses them goodnight Copyright© 2013, by Virginie Colline. All Rights Reserved. Virginie Colline is a …
For November, Spinozablue welcomes the poetry of Virginie Colline, Joshua Bocher, Greg Mackie and Kyle Hemmings. __________ Making poetry, making art, comes naturally to humans. For all we know, we’ve been doing this since the dawn of time. It probably brought immense pleasure to the first Neanderthal and his or her tribe when …
threadbare afternoon the kerosene lamp hisses like a rattlesnake love simulacra he can see the door through her and the night ahead they call her Sorrow the woman in bombazine by the blind window – by Virginie Colline Copyright ©2012, by Virginie Colline. All Rights Reserved. Virginie …
Spinozablue welcomes the poetry of Virginie Colline, Hilary Sideris, Changming Yuan, Kenneth Pobo, Joan McNerney, and the fiction of Shanna Perplies. * * * * * A tip of the hat goes to nnyhav for the link to Tim Parks’ excellent article in the New York Review of Books, The Chattering Mind. While most of …
Night Haiku black row of dumpsters an errant dog laps the moon in a cold puddle he points at the sky a hint of eternity in this diamond night time evaporates behind the doors of shadow moonlit Tsumago – by Virginie Colline Copyright © by Virginie Colline. All Rights Reserved. …
Spinozablue welcomes the fine Haiku of Virginie Colline, and the poetic works of Dan Corjescu and Neil Ellmann. __________ As long as we are alive, nothing is complete. We define this or that aspect of art, music, religion, life itself, and we kill it. In some way, small to great. Yes, poetry can lift art; …
Silver Lining Haiku a cloud for breakfast in my hand a pearl of dew against the sultry day – by Virginie Colline Copyright© 2012, Virginie Colline. All Rights Reserved. Virginie Colline is a French translator living in Paris. Her poems have appeared in The Scrambler, The Asahi Haikuist …