harvest moon
  our newborn's cry floats above
the cornstubble

—Ed Markowski

this poem was written thirty years
ago when our daughter was four months old.

About the author: ed markowski lives and writes in auburn hills, michigan. his work has appeared in modern haiku, acorn, bottle rockets, and the birmingham poetry review.

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Responses to the haiku for 24 October 2007 by Ed Markowski

  1.  
    Patricia (a/k/a Roswila) (maryschild44 at yahoo dot com)
    2007-10-24 12:44:28
     

    Really nice contrast, and so perfect for the autumn.

  2.  
    river Malcolm
    2007-10-24 12:50:44
     

    ed -- totally love this, as so many of yours. esp touched because it is my birthday.
    thanks

  3.  
    Bill Kenney
    2007-10-24 19:37:22
     

    Still as fresh as it was thirty years ago.

  4.  
    toby evans
    2007-10-24 20:24:39
     

    solid.

    autumn light
    the faded letters
    of an old poem

    good poem.

  5.  
    Vasile Moldovan (vasilemoldovan at yahoo dot com)
    2007-10-25 04:13:50
     

    burnt cornstuble...
    from the crickets'strong cry
    only a faint echo

  6.  
    david stark
    2007-10-25 06:27:42
     

    I love this poem. Haunting.

  7.  
    DarKmr
    2007-10-25 09:02:40
     

    Ed, you've prodded my memory, thanks.
    _She, then, was was two, and handles the task much more neatly... now.

    grandchild
    explores her pumpkin pie
    a masqurade
    _M

  8.  
    b. m. richardson (orgbob at webtv dot net)
    2007-10-25 17:17:15
     

    before dawn--
    chased before an autumn wind
    a rolling bottle

  9.  
    laryalee
    2007-10-26 19:27:47
     

    This is so moving, Ed...
    beautiful work -- and a glimpse
    of those special memories!
    ;)
    Lary

  10.  
    Collin Barber
    2007-10-26 22:50:56
     

    excellent ed, as always.

  11.  
    Alan Summers
    2007-10-29 03:22:32
     

    Good strong original haiku!

  12.  
    ed markowski
    2007-10-29 19:23:56
     

    the kind words are much appreciated.
    ed


    hunter's moon
    a drop of mother's milk
    on the infant's chin

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