Silk Painting/Tanka: Marjorie Pezzoli

Marjorie Pezzoli

aspen intertwine

Pando communications

bark quakes then trembles 

a homecoming gathering

loud hisses of howling snakes

- Marjorie Pezzoli

Be the One, Aspen Tree Silk Painting

I truly enjoy learning new facts through the process of writing poetry, especially for haiku and tanka pieces.

Learn more - 

https://www.nationalforests.org/blog/unforgettable-experiences-pando-aspen-clone

Marjorie Pezzoli is a silk painter for 25+ years, a page poet who will pick up a microphone at various San Diego open mics. Her writings deal with grief, hope, cosmic wonders, and stuff that catches her eye. She looks for words that are worth 1000 images. www.Pezzoliart.com 

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Setu, May 2025

Hybrid Poems: Jerome Berglund

Jerome Berglund

Jerome Berglund has worked as everything from dishwasher to paralegal, night watchman to assembler of heart valves. Many haiku, haiga and haibun he’s written have been exhibited or are forthcoming online and in print, most recently in bottle rockets, Frogpond, Kingfisher, and Presence. His first full-length collections of poetry were released by Setu, Meat For Tea, Mōtus Audāx press, and a mixed media chapbook showcasing his fine art photography is available now from Yavanika.

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Setu, March 2025

Dying City

Marjorie Pezzoli

Monumental Nothingness

lichens cling

the last leaf falls

a city underground 

unseen mycelium network 

a computer glitch

city council 

ants and cockroaches 

pigeons out of sight 

windows jam shut

the bonsai withers

graffiti 

hieroglyphics

art needs to survive

gmo-omg

a serving of soylent green 

rebar nails

wrongs un-righted

this sarcophagus contains all

a black hole forms

mushroom spores on the flip side

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Tanka

thick walls

neither here nor there

trees in museums 

walking in leaf whispers

empty echos

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Bio: Her writings deal with grief, hope, cosmic wonders, and stuff that catches her eye. Her poetry has been curated in numerous anthologies since 2019. Many of her works are inspired by her photographic observations taken while walking Beau, the dog with Betty Davis eyes. “The Cosmic Gumball Machine” is her weekly newsletter offering. Marjorie looks for words worth more than a thousand images. 

wwwPezzoliart.com

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Special Edition: The Dying City :: Setu, November 2024

Jerome Berglund

Jerome Berglund

Jerome Berglund has worked as everything from dishwasher to paralegal, night watchman to assembler of heart valves. Many haiku, haiga and haibun he’s written have been exhibited or are forthcoming online and in print, most recently in bottle rockets, Frogpond, Kingfisher and Presence. His first full-length collections of poetry Bathtub Poems, Funny Pages, and Eleusinian Solutions were released by Setu, Meat For Tea, Mōtus Audāx press press, and a mixed media chapbook showcasing his fine art imagery is available from Yavanika.  He is also an established, award-winning photographer, whose black and white pictures have been shown in New York, Minneapolis, and Santa Monica galleries.

* Text of Concrete Tanka:‘Spotlights’

wood anemone

she told me the things

that are here for you

are not the ones

that you want

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Setu, July 2024

Double Happiness RenTanka

Marjorie Pezzoli & Christina Chin

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Setu, March 2024

Tanka by Karen O’Leary

Karen O' Leary

the tornado                                                                
stripped the old oak…
the little boy
tucks a lone acorn
in his pocket
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gravel road
overrun with weeds
smokes leaks
from the ashes…
my childhood home
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a lone teen                                                                
sits on the vacant shore
tears falling—
inside his dad’s slurred words
toast another round

Setu Anniversary, June 2017