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Today marks 2,000 days of Robert Stone Haiku

A red letter day for Haiku lovers, ColumbiaMagazine.com, and Robert Stone

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Have you been reading the “Haiku by Robert Stone for (Day)” and wondering about them? They began appearing on ColumbiaMagazine.com with Day 111 so today (Friday Day 2110) is two thousand days of haiku. There have been a few days missed, such as when he was in the hospital.



They started as a birthday present for Chambers Stevens, a thousand day countdown to his fiftieth birthday, and continued when a friend wanted them to go on after that birthday.

Where do the ideas come from? At first here and there. Then reflections on a quotation from e. e. cummings, then twenty-six starting with each letter of the alphabet, on a quotation from Milan Kundera, on the 81 sections of the Tao Te Ching, on the 154 sonnets of William Shakespeare, and finally on passages from the Anne of Green Gables books.

This numbered daily series has about 1480 reflections on the stories of Anne (with an ‘e’) and is now in Anne of Windy Poplars. There is one more book to go: Anne of Ingleside. Then what?


This story was posted on 2017-06-23 07:01:54
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