Beautiful Haikus!
By The Horse
@TheHorse (226323)
Walnut Creek, California
March 9, 2023 11:59am CST
I had a moment of inspiration this morning. Call it an epiphany if you want. Ah, the life of a poet. These words just came to me as if they were a gift from God himself. Or herself. Or "they."
Do you feel that poetry can touch the soul in way that other art forms cannot? I am currently setting Robert Frost's Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening to music. When I feel bad, I think of the "ebb and flow of human misery," of course a line from Matthew Arnold's classic, Dover Beach. When I am confused, I remember the end of Alexander Pope's Essay on Man: "Whatever is, is right." (I forget if he used a comma.)
Haiku is such a wonderful and simple form of poetry. If a few short lines, one can capture the beauty and wonder of nature. Even if the beauty and wonder of nature is manifest in simply casting aside the old, and welcoming the new, the fresh, the Spring-like, a few short "brush stokes" will often do.
I hope you enjoy the words that flowed, no, spewed! (and splattered) from my...um...joyous fingers this morning.
what river is this?
a stench-ridden waterfall
how the room spins
i spin then with cause!
relief again in small chunks
from the other end
the room is now still
my ceiling white and textured
must I rise again?
hark! The call of birds
life will have meaning once more
i hold down solids
the joy of water!
my body and soul are cleansed
i will start anew
the world through fresh eyes
i now savor each moment
blues, greens, the sun, smiles
and most: sweet music
thank you! how i live for thee
i perch, look, and soar.
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@celticeagle (174183)
• Boise, Idaho
9 Mar 23
Never have been that into poetry. Interesting key words you use.
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@celticeagle (174183)
• Boise, Idaho
10 Mar 23
@TheHorse ...........The more interesting words.
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@TheHorse (226323)
• Walnut Creek, California
10 Mar 23
@celticeagle I tried to be...delicate
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@FourWalls (74516)
• United States
9 Mar 23
I have a Kentucky haiku for you:
Sneeze. Drip. Sneeze. Drip. Sneeze.
I hate allergy season
Drip. Sneeze. Drip. Sneez. Drip.
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@FourWalls (74516)
• United States
9 Mar 23
@TheHorse — I am weeping, too. Well, my nose is.
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@TheHorse (226323)
• Walnut Creek, California
9 Mar 23
@FourWalls I was the snot rocket king of my Summer Camp in Michigan in my youth.
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@JamesHxstatic (29411)
• Eugene, Oregon
10 Mar 23
Ahh... graphic language Haikus, nice touch.
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@TheHorse (226323)
• Walnut Creek, California
10 Mar 23
@JamesHxstatic Not necessarily the best or prettiest part.
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Oh sorry, got to run, the phone's ringing.@TheHorse (226323)
• Walnut Creek, California
10 Mar 23
@JudyEv Have you ever heard of Poetry.com? It's a sucker thing that lures "bad poets" into buying their hard-bound books. You submit a poem, they say you've been nominated for some award, and the right to be published in their "next volume." I guess it's called a "vanity press." I knew someone (a bad poet) who fell for it. I was thinking about it as I wrote my disgusting Hailkus.
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@LindaOHio (188285)
• United States
13 Mar 23
Interesting. I'm sorry you were so sick!
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@RasmaSandra (84795)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
9 Mar 23
I like em' I like em' I tried entering some in a challenge for big bucks but it appeared that others did much better than me.
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