Mountain on Top of a Mountain by Malcom Ritchie #TSEliotPrize My life measured out in

My life measured out in tides

becoming a word

Even as she was searching for people who had wanted to live like a tree

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Mountain on Top of a Mountain by Malcom Ritchie #TSEliotPrize My life measured out inWhile editors and publishers in the past have always described my short form poems as haiku, I prefer to call the majority of the short form poems of the type in this collection as One strike Poems, since the term 'haiku' relates to a very different cultural and historical mind set and developmental literary process. And long before my awareness of haiku, the source of my short form poems came originally from my interest in the chants and prayers of