wilderness trash heap
all around the broken clock
wild lilies
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Margarita Engle
Margarita Engle is the Cuban-American author of young adult novels in verse, including The Surrender Tree, which received the first Newbery Honor ever awarded to a Latino. Her most recent book is Hurricane Dancers, the First Caribbean Pirate Shipwreck.
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For me there’s no sorrow here. The significance is just LIFE, in any form (in this case flowers). The clock isn’t ticking, but the lilies are growing. Still.
Margarita,
_I agree with Gosia. Lilies care nothing about our time’s gauge or of its ticks and tocks, their cycles simply carry on. That, I think, is the circular contrary… of your insightful haiku.
_Our sense of time… is the eddy it leaves as it passes us by.
_M
time: a nonspatial(not having space) continuum(that which is continuous, no separate parts evident) in which events/nonevents occur in IRREVERSIBLE succession…
–
what if…
there was no day nor night
only the twinkling of the stars
–
the haiku, lasting for a moment
–
broken clock
on the dusty mantel
correct once today–
once tonight
Bourbon Street
rain drips from the trumpet lily
tiger lilies stalk
the wild petunia
in her lair
“trail of tears”-
nunna daul isunyi
the trail where we cried
never a subject more worthy of tears
nor treated with more tender
and affecting sentiment
every letter written with a tear
every word the sob of a broken heart
yet, he does not forget that a covenant God still reigns *
*thoughts on the cherokee nation’s resettlement, and “words” reflecting jeremiah’s lamentation
For me there’s no sorrow here. The significance is just LIFE, in any form (in this case flowers). The clock isn’t ticking, but the lilies are growing. Still.
Margarita,
_I agree with Gosia. Lilies care nothing about our time’s gauge or of its ticks and tocks, their cycles simply carry on. That, I think, is the circular contrary… of your insightful haiku.
_Our sense of time… is the eddy it leaves as it passes us by.
_M
time: a nonspatial(not having space) continuum(that which is continuous, no separate parts evident) in which events/nonevents occur in IRREVERSIBLE succession…
–
what if…
there was no day nor night
only the twinkling of the stars
–
the haiku, lasting for a moment
–
broken clock
on the dusty mantel
correct once today–
once tonight