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[ericcoliu]

Reading and Writing: Life on the Page


Cut My Life into Pieces (Contemporary English Haibun)

For me, writing is like a surgical process, cutting the story down to its barest essentials. The pen is a scalpel. There is a beating heart left there, bleeding on the page. Writing also functions as a container. I can keep pouring out all of my pain into that vessel. It doesn’t tell me to get over my pain and then move on with my life. Rather it smiles at me and says, “Give me more of your pain.”

my anguish
spilled on a blank page
the poem
_________________
Time is nothing but a disquiet of the soul

[[ericcoliu]]

Reading and Writing: Life on the Page


Cut My Life into Pieces (Contemporary English Haibun)

For me, writing is like a surgical process, cutting the story down to its barest essentials. The pen is a scalpel. There is a beating heart left there, bleeding on the page. Writing also functions as a container. I can keep pouring out all of my pain into that vessel. It doesn’t tell me to get over my pain and then move on with my life. Rather it smiles at me and says, “Give me more of your pain.”

my anguish
spilled on a blank page
the poem
_________________
Time is nothing but a disquiet of the soul

[ericcoliu]

Below are replies from my poet friends:


Beautifully expressed,Eric.
There is a Jewish expression that relates to a Jewish view of God .I think it is 'tikkun olam ' but I did not check to see if that is accurate.This view of God is that he left the world incomplete and that it is our task to complete or perfect it.I see you are a person who participates in that task.

-- Mary

Your scalpel has cut life down to the base pain.

My first thought after reading.

I eat
the bread-
life grinds

-- Rodney L. Eisenbrandt

Well done ku...

without a pen
words dirty
an empty space

-- Gary Blankenship
_________________
Time is nothing but a disquiet of the soul

[[ericcoliu]]

Below are replies from my poet friends:


Beautifully expressed,Eric.
There is a Jewish expression that relates to a Jewish view of God .I think it is 'tikkun olam ' but I did not check to see if that is accurate.This view of God is that he left the world incomplete and that it is our task to complete or perfect it.I see you are a person who participates in that task.

-- Mary

Your scalpel has cut life down to the base pain.

My first thought after reading.

I eat
the bread-
life grinds

-- Rodney L. Eisenbrandt

Well done ku...

without a pen
words dirty
an empty space

-- Gary Blankenship
_________________
Time is nothing but a disquiet of the soul

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