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An Anglo-Japanese style home on Beverly Road at Brevoort Street in Kew Gardens, NY (2000). Click on image to enlarge it.
About Haiku Poetry
"Haiku" is a form of Japanese poetry in which each verse consists of 17 syllables arranged in 3 lines of 5, 7 and 5 syllables, respectively. Haiku is not meant to rhyme or to have rhythmic cadences.
This Anglo-Japanese style home was owned by a florist named Joseph Fleischmann. It stood on the site of today's Beverly House Apartments across the street from the house pictured above.. Click on image to enlarge it.
HaiKew Gardens
[Editor's Note: One of our readers has composed and submitted this poem about Kew Gardens written in Haiku verse - see sidebar - which I thought was worth a page of its own.]
Kew Gardens girl from
'42 to '63
It was my first home.
The Curzon House at
One hundred and eighteenth street
Was where I began.
My tonsils removed
At Kew Gardens Hospital
On Union Turnpike.
Apartment 5b
In Kent Manor's Building B
My family's pad.
Many apartments
Made Kent Manor denizens
Seem like a village.
Playing in the Park
Except during the summers
Of polio scares.
Sleigh riding for hours
Down the big hill in the park
Near Forest Park Drive.
My Alma Maters
PS 90, Russell Sage
And Forest Hills High.
Early school teachers
Ms. Hutchens , Cummings, Lawrence
And Mr. Zimmler.
Russell Sage unfinished
'54 when I entered
The students dispersed.
Triple session was
The plight at Forest Hills for
The class of '60.
Down 80th Road
Frequent walks to the subway
At Union Turnpike.
Mimi's Candy Store
For gourmet confections on
Lefferts Boulevard.
Also on Lefferts
For standard garb of the fifties
Was the Outlet Store.
Mildred Rogers ran
A unique dance studio
This gal's second home.
Such fond memories
Of a place warm and friendly
Sustain me still now.
~ Renée Claridge (Dernburg)
[Editor's Note: Renée Claridge Dernburg may be contacted through the web site editor].
