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Unread 10-20-2008, 08:22 AM
Lee Gurga Lee Gurga is offline
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Originally posted by Chiago Mapocho:
native grasses
bending slow
an old woman

Henriette, I like that one a lot except for "slow". I know you want it to do double duty to the old woman and the grass. Perhaps, which would also add the element of wind:

native grasses
bending west
and old woman

That actually does a tripple duty.

PS, Seree: found yours very good as well. The technique reminds me of Yugen with the last line, and Wabi with the overall mood. I too, though, wondered about "charged". IMO, you're one word away from exquisite.

Two inspired ones while I still have the chanse:

ash wedensday
moonspear on sunflowers'
testudoed heads

dawn to nepal evening
milk bottles
filled with yak shadow

(or:

first december
a nepal moon
under a cow's udder

/

sunset
nepal sun drinking
under a cow's udder)

Just one response to

native grasses
bending west
and old woman

this is by Al Pizzarelli from The Haiku Anthology, ed. Cor van den Heuvel:

the fat lady
bends over the tomatoes
a full moon

Forgive me! I couldn't resist!

Lee

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