brown thrush
those long legs lost
in clover
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Mitzi Trout
Midwestern by birth, southern by transplant, I have been published since the 1980's by Modern Haiku, Frogpond, Brussels Sprout, Chiyo's Corner, haijinx, and Haiku World. If the birds and bees were as prolific as I am, we would soon have a world without flowers or song.
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I am aware who you are and I have read many of
your haiku, but, what is a [brown thash?] or did
you intend this to be a [brown thrasher?]
always,
Gene
H. Gene Murtha
such a clever trout
capturing a mockingbird
here for all to see
suddenly silver
as they turn in their flight
city pigeons
the bird of my youth
[“Brown” “thrush” A common American singing bird (Harporhynchus rufus) also called brown thrasher.(Toxostoma rufums)] @
@ webster
now, i’m curious about the brown thrash, or perchance you meant brown thrush, gene
blessedly
unaware of semantics,
knee deep in clover
mangoes in bloom —
aroma
enters my taste buds
I am inundated with messages and I thank all of you. A mystery! I clearly wrote and sent the
haiku as
brown thrush
those long legs lost
in clover
I am bewildered by two responses where the
reader saw “brown thrush” as “brown thrash”.
Although I am not an expert bird watcher, I
would never call a thrush or thrasher a “thrash”.
Please clarify.
Blessings,
Mitzi
mitzi,
well done classic haiku. quality is more
desirable anyway. things move slow down
south, nothing wrong with that…
ed
magnolia blossoms
i’ll change the sparkplugs
when the sun goes down
assembly line
it’s lined with broken
men & women
good evening mitzi,
the (mystery) might be clarified through the usage of a word few people perceive, “judgmental”. rather than understand what’s being said and only that, there’s a (rash) rush to rationalize, to read more into a situation than what’s being presented. look at some of the responses; thoughts plausible but false.
aha!!! some might think, akin to (a haiku)
evening breeze
rippling pine needles
whispers in the dark
Dear Mitzi,
The brown thrush is not a thrush, and Gene Murtha, who is a birder, may have tried to say that. However, brown thrush is a very common and frequently used synonymous name for the brown thrasher, which is also the brown mockingbird. Even Audubon, on its web site, says all three names refer to the same bird.
Gene added to the confusion by misspelling brown thrush as “brown thash”(not even brown thrash).
Ed Schwellenbach
below the blooms
and the leaves
long leggy stalks
seagulls 1 by 1 by 1…
sunning
even on the rooftop, too
Thank you for the new response, dear reader.
I do check in to tiny words from time to time, and always enjoy reading it. But
rarefied world —
a woman not meant for
the rigors of haiku
Mitzi
mitzi, rarefied world akin to rarefied air
–
scraggly, yet green pine
mountain in the distance
less difficult to climb
just me