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Stab At Haiku

Thirty-nine hours Face to face blossoms grinning Spring dreams never fade.   Kudzu on phone poles Recalculating again Summer vacations   Autumn reds and golds Birthdays remembered with joy. Reflected in lakes   Tsarina shivers. Siberian silence roars, freezing her smile. “Haiku uses an economy of words to paint a multi-tiered painting, without “telling all”.[9] Or…

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Thirty-nine hours

Face to face blossoms grinning

Spring dreams never fade.

 

Kudzu on phone poles

Recalculating again

Summer vacations

 

Autumn reds and golds

Birthdays remembered with joy.

Reflected in lakes

 

Tsarina shivers.

Siberian silence roars,

freezing her smile.

“Haiku uses an economy of words to paint a multi-tiered painting, without “telling all”.[9] Or as Matsuo Bashō puts it, “The haiku that reveals seventy to eighty percent of its subject is good. Those that reveal fifty to sixty percent, we never tire of.”[10]” Wikipedia

23 responses to “Stab At Haiku”

  1. smilingtoad Avatar
    smilingtoad

    What an absolutely thrilling photo!!!! What a privilege to visit this place- what an ultimate utopia.

    What a beautiful and delicate evolution the haiku poems undergo, flowing and converging, so tantalizing. Such vivid images come to mind, with nostalgia. Such delight in words and experience and emotion evoked through them. I was especially drawn to the image of the kudzu crawling about the telephone poles- that really punched through to me with a strong familiarity- a highlight of something so beautiful, and dolefully overlooked sometimes, making gorgeous a thing mundane, an old weathered, stolid telephone pole. Here the wild grapevines especially like to crawl about everything as you probably remember, along with the decorations of moss and lichens, beautifying the man-made things we see every day, making them seem new and fresh and apart of something living…and there I went…on a ramble tour again…oh dear.

    I am just in love with this post, too excellent. Glad I staggered over it and fell into that exquisite field of flowers, delighting in your images. Right, right! The speckled cat is begging me to throw the ball for him so he can fetch it. It is a bell-ball. He loves it. If I don’t play, he’ll start pawing teasingly at the two wee cats to make them bellow, all for his for entertainment, he thinks- rascal he can be! So I better stop rambling to you now and start shooting balls across the room! Cheers to you,

    Autumn Jade

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    1. tchistorygal Avatar
      tchistorygal

      Wow! that’s an old one post! October, 2012. I had to go back and reread it to find out what you were responding to. The picture was taken years ago above my friend’s house. My friend and I hiked up to the top, but we were taking a breathing break! Those beautiful flowers develop into thistles by fall! Don’t let your cats play in these pretty flowers! 🙂

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      1. smilingtoad Avatar
        smilingtoad

        Yes, I was browsing about your posts via category. I just LOVE thistles! Cheers!

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        1. tchistorygal Avatar
          tchistorygal

          mmmmm yummy! I could send you some! 🙂 Well, maybe not, You’ll have to come out and get some, though! 🙂

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          1. smilingtoad Avatar
            smilingtoad

            Sounds excellent, I would be delighted

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          2. tchistorygal Avatar
            tchistorygal

            You’re a sharp gal, but you’d be even sharper after eating those thistles. Sharp as a tack, I’d say! 🙂 Did you get the point of this comment? Ouch! I guess you did! Don’t get prickly over it! It was just a joke! 🙂

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          3. smilingtoad Avatar
            smilingtoad

            My dear lass, you are attempting homicide!

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          4. tchistorygal Avatar
            tchistorygal

            hehehehe The evil rubs off! Did your ears burn tonight? I tweeted about you. 🙂

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          5. smilingtoad Avatar
            smilingtoad

            Oh no! YES they did! I noticed some very fierce stabbing in the upper pinna region of the ear, it was most atrocious. You must have mentioned some ABOMINABLE word, did you not??? Yessss….the evil HAS been rubbing off…..oh no, one notorious villain is enough, I cannot bear to weld a heathen out of a dear darling Marsha Lee…what have I DONE???!!! And Dr. Frankenstein thought HE had it bad! What an oaf!

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          6. tchistorygal Avatar
            tchistorygal

            hehehehehe…..

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          7. smilingtoad Avatar
            smilingtoad

            TOO funny!!

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          8. tchistorygal Avatar
            tchistorygal

            kee hee hee hee! 🙂

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          9. smilingtoad Avatar
            smilingtoad

            My dear lass, Is there anything more chuffing than chortling with you??? I think not!! Cheers!!

            Autumn Jade

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          10. tchistorygal Avatar
            tchistorygal

            You keep me chortling all day and night long! I mean, without your intervention, I might never have even learned HOW to chortle! You are the queen of chortling!

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      2. smilingtoad Avatar
        smilingtoad

        Ah, I just had to share this song with you very quickly, as it was just the song that played in the mind as I read your poetry-

        Hope it works! Cheers

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  3. Rhence Avatar
    Rhence

    Lovely. 🙂

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    1. tchistorygal Avatar
      tchistorygal

      Thank you Rhence. By the way, my middle name is Lee. Just call me Marsha. 🙂

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      1. Rhence Avatar
        Rhence

        Oh. Okay Marsha. 😉

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  4. Amy Avatar
    Amy

    Gorgeous shot!

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    1. tchistorygal Avatar
      tchistorygal

      Thanks, a friend’s property. It was a long walk up there!!!

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  5. Naomi Baltuck Avatar
    Naomi Baltuck

    Marsha, these are really good.

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    1. tchistorygal Avatar
      tchistorygal

      Thank you very much! It took a lot more time to write them than I thought, but they were pestering me in the middle of the night, so I thought I’d better let them out!

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