the zen space

… with my apologies for its lateness. Hover your cursor over the “Experience” tab and the Autumn Showcase should be at the top of the drop-down menu (the platform no longer allows me to put ‘child’ pages in order under their ‘parent’ page). Or you can click here.

Thank you for your submissions, as always.

As always, I’m looking for new voices. So if readers could invite friends who write our kind of words (haiku, related forms, in-the-moment poems, &c.) to submit something, I would be grateful.

Regular contributors, there is no need to stop submitting, but please forgive me if I bank your kind submissions for a while.

Yours hopefully, as always,

Marie

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Life is far to fleeting to pay any attention to adverts.

A little late, but maybe it’s good to make you wait (she said, impishly!).

Well, the platform seems to have deleted its option of choosing what numbered place a page has under its parent page (for the comfort and convenience of its customers), so finding the latest Showcase is actually made easier for you. simply hover your cursor over the ‘Experience’ tab, and the Showcase is the first item to click on! Or simply click here.

I am still on the look-out for new contributors, by the way. Don’t say I didn’t mention it. Tell your friends.

Marie Marshall

editor

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These adverts – total snake oil! Pay no attention.

The Spring 2022 Showcase is now published! Hover your cursor over the “Experience” tab and scroll down, or click here.

Enjoy!

MM

Happy New Year!

There’s a new Showcase for you to read, the forty-second one we have published so far. Who knew this venture would last this long? To access the Winter 2022 Showcase, hover your cursor over the “Experience” tab and scroll down the pop-up list. Alternatively you can click here.

By the way, my constant call is for new “names” for the zen space, new people who can pen short-burst, in-the-moment poetry, haiku, senryu, and so on. Also artists who catch my eye, to add something visual to a showcase. So I am relying on our readers to pass on the message, to call out on our behalf, so we can see who’s out there…

That includes fairies.

MM.

… and it’s full of swallows and poetry.

To visit, hover your cursor over the “experience” tab and scroll down to the bottom. Or click here.

Enjoy!

… to inspire you to write your own.

This poem was part of my collection I am not a fish. Click on it to find out more.

July is the month of Liberty, some would say, or certainly of noisy and demonstrative celebration of nation and culture. On the 4th, America goes misty-eyed in the dawn’s early light. On the 12th it’s bowler hats, white gloves, and sashes on the streets of Belfast. On the 14th in France le jour de gloire est arrivé…

Here at the zen space we can be quieter, but just as colourful, because the Summer 2015 Showcase is now published. It includes art by Claudia Schoenfeld, to which the poetry of our contributors are certainly not captions. To visit the showcase, either hover your pointer over ‘Experience’ and scroll down, or click here.

By the way, please let the editor know if there are any particular problems with viewing the Showcases in the browser you use. thezenspace{a}googlemail.com

Some interesting, exciting, and quirky ideas for future Showcases are already bubbling under, by the way…