The exercise:
Write two haiku about: the field.
Managed to get through today's box harvest and pickup on our own, though it certainly was a longer day than usual. Next week I'm hoping to get a few things picked the day before, and Kat should be able to help out a bit as well if her mom is able to watch Max for a little while.
But for the moment I am drained and ready for sleep.
Mine:
Workers bent over,
hauling weeds out of the earth...
and sometimes plants too.
* * *
Rusting, abandoned
cars, broken glass, used needles;
play somewhere else, child.
3 comments:
Well, I hope that it's your first haiku that has the ring of truth to it today, and not the second! I definitely prefer your first haiku.
The field
They stand there forlorn,
glory's measured against them;
For they also ran.
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Two cows graze in peace,
a falcon circles above.
They build here next week.
Tall grass over my
Head. I wonder what might be
Hiding in this field.
The horse is gone. Now
Orchids, tiny trees return.
Field becomes forest.
Greg - I think your second haiku takes it for me this week, for that totally unexpected last line.
Morganna - after reading your first haiku I can easily picture someone standing at the edge of an overgrown field, contemplating its contents. I like that image a lot.
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