e pluribus haiku

e pluribus haiku 2018

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$2.99 on Kindle


1000 original haiku from fifty states and the District of Columbia - written in an original 5-7-5 style. Haiku are colorful and physical and include a season word or hint. Because the USA is geographically spread out, geography clues are necessary too.

e pluribus haiku 2017
a thousand moments, one journey

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This volume has 1000 original haiku, and is probably the best overall picture of the US in ~1974, when I traveled 48 states, and Guatemala to Alaska. The poems try to be true to the trip, and true to the era, though they are not always strictly true to fact.

e pluribus haiku 2016
a thousand moments, one journey

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This one was my pride & joy in that it came out in time for international haiku day; over 500 of the haiku were original, but there was enough modification so that each state is very different from the previous year. Each state includes a study of a woman, though of the fifty one, only some were real.

e pluribus haiku 2015
a thousand moments, one journey

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This was the first to have a thousand haiku, and it tried to be true to the trip itself; it is generally set in the 1970's.











1000 All haiku written in a 5-7-5 syllable pattern; many were originally inspired by a hitchhiking/boxcar trip across North America in the mid-1970's. These haiku show the incredible diversity of the USA, its people and its terrain, using the haiku tendency to highlight nature and the season of the experience.



The following were published on Amazon, but many of their poems are included in the above editions, so there are fewer original ones as time goes on.

e pluribus haiku 2014
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Cover is the Haiku Steps, Hawaii

e pluribus haiku 2013
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Cover of this one is actually the corner of Flint and 19th St., Lubbock

e pluribus haiku 2012
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e pluribus haiku
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paper version of this one is rare.

This was the original one, inspired by a reading which was a benefit for the homeless.

inspiration

book signing/parade

Flash Fiction

Flash fiction combines the best of the two things I've done a lot of: short stories and haiku. Flash fiction has less than a thousand words, so you have to be concise, but of course, I don't mind that. For someone who leaves out crucial information as a matter of course, maybe flash fiction is the perfect genre.

But alas, I've just started it; so far, I've written one a day, and hope to write a hundred, in maybe ninety-five more days. I don't totally know what I'm doing. But if you want to be a reader (you read for free, you tell me which you like best), I would be glad to entertain the idea. Message me or e-mail me at tlevsp at gmail.com. I'll send you the file!

Happy Fourth!

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