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Daytime show (Valentine’s Day Special)

I was talking about how to write love poems on Daytime show (Valentine’s Day special) at Rogers TV-Mississ​auga on Feb 14. My first segment starts at 6:20.  Click the picture below to go to Rogers TV to see the video clip.

To read the verses here:  love sonnet (I read on TV)

I want to thank Producer Sonia Sache and her crew inviting me back to their Daytime show. Here is the show last year about my book “Wings Toward Sunlight” launch.

 My other Valentine’s poems:  Valentine Love  

Valentine’s Day/情人节 (inspired by Famous Blue Raincoat – Leonard Cohen)

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write a haiku every day

Haiku are very brief “one-breath” poems, originally from Japan, usually about 10 to 14 syllables in English, can be read in one breath with primarily objective sensory imagery, season words, and a two-part juxtapositional structure that implied feeling… 

the huge white Apple ———————– my mother’s favorite
black frames               ———————–                      china
a blue sky  ————————————- on the kitchen floor

A haiku a day   (So far, I’ve kept one or two haiku every day….)

Here is an very good interview Everyday Delight:Michael Dylan Welch talks about Haiku. Another good one How do you write haiku?  and more: Reading Jane Reichhold’s