Ode to Sake from Noritake by Joe Maverick

Poet Destroyer A

Date: 7/8/2012 8:41:00 PM

Hello, Joe.. here to say hi, and read your ku' on this fine china set... hope you had more tableware.. enjoyed..pd

Gwendolen R.

Date: 5/28/2012 8:30:00 PM

Hi Joe, I researched Noritake, the patterns, the influence, the historical significance of the changes in designs....I got no clue as to what you are looking for in this contest...I could just write about beautiful China but it is probably NOT what you are looking for...these hidden meanings are very HIDDEN to me...sorry Joe...I am not as sophisticated as the rest of these guys. Love, Gwendolen

Joann Grisetti

Date: 5/24/2012 9:57:00 AM

With a syllable count of 6-7-7 this is more like a katuaka. Which form do you want in y our contest? 5-7-5 or 5-7-7 or 6-7-7?

Carolyn Devonshire

Date: 5/12/2012 1:35:00 PM

Awesome images here, Joe. I like the way you describe the moon as "reflective" with a copper chablis blossom. I have all sorts of thoughts running through my head reading this. I will see if I can work with these thoughts and produce some haiku. I have been too ill to be on the Soup the past few days. Doing a little better today. Love, Carolyn

Ruben O.

Date: 5/8/2012 9:12:00 AM

Hey, Joe...is the third line correct or you missed the "s" in "tastes"?

Debbie Guzzi

Date: 5/6/2012 6:43:00 PM

yup totally nonsensicle ..not a haiku...noritake is tableware? tableware writing a tribute to rice wine? shadows don't reflect a solid CASTES a shadow...the moon does reflect the light of the sun..copper tastes YUCKY! ever sucked a penny? LOL actually BLOOD tastes like copper? rose? not sure what you are doing Joe unless it's a puzzle?

Ruben O. Date: 5/8/2012 9:07:00 AM

Oh! Deborah! : ) ...nah! I wont ...Do I dare to play with your words? nah! : )

Joe Maverick Date: 5/7/2012 4:07:00 PM

Thanks for your comment Debbie,, i just hoped to get some great poems which i am sure i will." I like the way you think on this.." but you need to break out of such a confined approach.." and to be fair i think you could..! whether or not you realise you touch close to the aspects that are there..!

Ruben O.

Date: 5/6/2012 2:22:00 PM

hmm...."[...] copper chablis"? ...not bronze Chablis? The third line puzzles me ... and my dirty mind doesnt help! LOL! I'll try to write a haiku for your contest but do not ask me about my interpretation! LOL! Have a nice day. Ruben.

Deborah Burch

Date: 5/6/2012 10:07:00 AM

Fabulous!!! Joe! Everything plays off of each other :) This is a fav !! What a melding pot of metaphors LOL... I love it! Big Hugs, love , deb

Andrea Dietrich

Date: 5/6/2012 8:46:00 AM

is this the one you refer to in your blog? Sorry, I am really bad with puzzles, JOe. You should let them know in the blog where LOL is. It's not on your first page. I'll go track it down if I can.

jack horne

Date: 3/9/2012 3:33:00 PM

fascinating piece, Joe - love the title too

JSLambert Chinaski domo-MR.ROBOTO

Date: 11/11/2011 3:44:00 PM

this one's got stYle...7rate and to my faves. Cheers and down goes the Sake with some Teriyaki Shiitake!=

elizabeth wesley

Date: 11/9/2011 7:44:00 PM

Thanks for your expansion on the poem. Gives the verse so much more depth and I need to learn to grasp these deeper meanings. It all weaves together so beautifully.

Joe Maverick

Date: 10/11/2011 6:12:00 PM

I shall try to expand this poem..it is a fun write on one level:) i e, sake being drunk from a china Noritake bowl theMade in Japan, i hope.!) the taste chablis/copper, also the bowl is concave invert..impassive the moon is a cresent also invert, the blossom is soft white, like the moon, the taste of sake blossoms...on tounge pink like blossom cherry..

Debbie Guzzi

Date: 10/10/2011 7:24:00 PM

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/worldkigolibrary/message/71........... http://sites.google.com/site/graceguts/essays/haiku-checklist....both are clear excellent writes to keep near the comp

Robert A. Dufresne

Date: 7/2/2011 7:57:00 AM

Ingenious title for a tasteful poem, Joe. Well done!

nette onclaud

Date: 7/2/2011 4:50:00 AM

how did i miss this sensitive piece, joe? moon tasting blossom and wine?? i'm awed! ..lovely imagery! :) hugs. nette

Carolyn Devonshire

Date: 6/20/2011 2:07:00 PM

Thank you for your kind comment, Joe. Still waiting for the test results, but I'll let you know when I hear something. Thank you for caring! Love, Carolyn

Carolyn Devonshire

Date: 6/19/2011 12:04:00 PM

I can see the image of the "impassive moon" so well through your words. Wonder if we could sip from the moon and find a "copper chablis." Eloquently written, Joe. Love and blessings, Carolyn

Michelle Mac Donald

Date: 6/19/2011 9:23:00 AM

Cheers, Joe! An astute tribute to the "chablis", "Sake from Noritake". A faint flinty taste, yet still holds its own in the wine industy. Very clever! Best wishes, Mikki

Andrea Dietrich

Date: 6/17/2011 8:35:00 PM

Is this for lines and shadows? That topic fits your style very well, Joe. I can't think of a thing to do for that contest!!

Sara Kendrick

Date: 6/17/2011 5:25:00 PM

That is a pretty flask.Not expensive either.Great fall colors..Very impressive work describing it..Thanks for the kind review of my work.Yes, I wrote another work about my father's death.I did not expect him to die but he had said that if someone doesn't do something for me I am going to die.I just thought that they would do surgery and he would be alright.I knew in my heart that he was gone a good thirty minutes before anyone told me he had died.I felt this spirit of him come to me pass on.Sara

DON JOHNSON

Date: 6/17/2011 4:17:00 PM

Deep stuff Joe, great verse mate, on ya, Don

Michael J. Falotico

Date: 6/17/2011 4:07:00 PM

Nice poetry my friend.... as always....

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