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We all need to feed, and work, and begging is a long and honourable activity including Zen monks, some of them haikai poets. :-)
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From window washers and vendors to asking alms, and often short of what they need:
I gave a loonie (you need to be Canadian, perhaps, to know what that is…) to a guy at a stop light yesterday. What a light-hearted man – he made me smile much more than the loonie’s worth.
October 27th, 2016 at 9:38 am
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We all need to feed, and work, and begging is a long and honourable activity including Zen monks, some of them haikai poets. :-)
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From window washers and vendors to asking alms, and often short of what they need:
sunlit sweat
the young vagrant
sucks a thumb
Alan Summers
Haiku Harvest vol. 4 no. 1 (2003)
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October 27th, 2016 at 12:06 pm
Well drawn, Dave. Great ku.
I gave a loonie (you need to be Canadian, perhaps, to know what that is…) to a guy at a stop light yesterday. What a light-hearted man – he made me smile much more than the loonie’s worth.
October 27th, 2016 at 5:22 pm
the homeless gentleman
a little soft shoe
in his stride
October 27th, 2016 at 5:30 pm
A very potent piece. i love it!
October 27th, 2016 at 7:04 pm
Thanks everyone!
October 28th, 2016 at 10:27 am
Perfect Dave … ! … says it all and more … :)
October 28th, 2016 at 10:38 am
Beautiful!
Making traffic ,
For the uses of traffic !
October 28th, 2016 at 10:38 am
Very lovely Dave. Congratulations
October 28th, 2016 at 10:43 am
another beggar called himself "a moral traffic light" – perhaps they know each other?
October 28th, 2016 at 3:56 pm
Nice way to highlight the positive out of the negative. Wonderful pivot in the second line as well.
November 1st, 2016 at 5:41 pm
Brought me right back to a street in Mumbai over a decade ago, Dave.
marion
November 5th, 2016 at 3:20 am
I’m impressed! You’ve managed the almost impbesiols.
April 11th, 2017 at 9:35 am
A very potent piece. i love it!