folded in the corner
of the linen cupboard –
a moth


—Sandra Simpson

About the author: Sandra lives in Tauranga, New Zealand, a harbourside city full of promise (and estuaries). She is the editor of Haiku NewZ, a monthly internet newsletter for readers and writers of haiku. She is also secretary of the Katikati Haiku Pathway Focus Committee - the pathway now features 27 boulders engraved with haiku, including one by Sandra, on a riverside walk in Katikati, a small town north of Tauranga.

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Responses to the haiku for 10 January 2007 by Sandra Simpson

  1.  
    kala ramesh
    2007-01-10 01:48:07
     

    You've created a good visual imagery!

    -kala

  2.  
    Matt C.
    2007-01-10 07:58:28
     

    gently I take what I need
    not to disturb the tableau

  3.  
    Bill Kenney
    2007-01-10 08:54:18
     

    Neat!

  4.  
    Sandra Martyres
    2007-01-10 09:44:26
     

    Well expressed!!

  5.  
    Alan Summers
    2007-01-10 11:16:31
     

    Yes! Very original, but also inclusive, as I've experienced a moth or other creature, creased or folded. Thank you!

  6.  
    A.J.
    2007-01-10 11:29:22
     

    This one reminded me of a terrifying experience I had:

    Craving toast...
    But from the cupboard
    A moth explodes

  7.  
    Vasile Moldovan (vasilemoldovan at yahoo dot com)
    2007-01-10 12:36:46
     

    A fantastical image. It reminds me a happening since my childhood:

    On the old jacket
    some piping hot buttons...
    young moths

  8.  
    ping lee sung
    2007-01-10 14:38:11
     

    terrified of a moth? good thing you don't
    live on elm street aj.

  9.  
    A.J.
    2007-01-10 15:01:34
     

    Well Ping, it wasn't so much the moth that was terrifying as it was the unexpectedness of having a giant, ugly butterfly burst out of my bread cupboard and flying aggressively at my head. And had it entered my mouth, I could have choked on the wee beastie, which was, in fact, freakishly large.

  10.  
    cjames
    2007-01-11 09:10:53
     

    I love the parallel between the implied linens which are folded in the linen closet and the folded moth. Wonderful!

  11.  
    Rella
    2007-01-11 15:42:25
     

    This is sad and sweet at the same time. Just beautiful. The visual is instant and poignant. I love it.

  12.  
    b. m. richardson (orgbob at webtv dot net)
    2007-01-15 14:20:07
     

    new moon rising--
    in the crook of my arm
    the runt of the litter

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