birthday —
the backwards struggle
of the butterfly
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Aurora Antonovic
Aurora Antonovic is a Canadian writer, editor, and visual artist whose work has appeared over one thousand times in publications spanning eleven countries and five continents. She is a recent winner in the 2005 Tanka Splendor Awards, and a Pushcart Prize nominee. She is a member of The Bohemian Poet, a collective poet/artist group headed by Michael Ladanyi.
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Aurora,
_I thank you… your complement_!
_My haiku(ish) response simply indicates a parallel thought. Its importance is… that that thought was caused by YOUR haiku.
_To Judith, a toast. I raise my glass and nod my brow_!
_M
very very nice! i love your work…
ant-to-ant
my birthday cake
crumb-by-crumb
i loved your poem…..
Birthdays-time goes forward, not backwards,even though we might long for the past.
Great haiku, Aurora
listen…
among the silent flowers
a butterfly
_M
Hey Aurora,
I like this one.
Bob
Thanks for reading, everyone. No fair that the two ‘ku offered in the comments section were better than the original. :)
Aurora, I like your poem very much.
no room on the cake
for eighty candles
, , , that’s okay
Aurora,
_I thank you… your complement_!
_My haiku(ish) response simply indicates a parallel thought. Its importance is… that that thought was caused by YOUR haiku.
_To Judith, a toast. I raise my glass and nod my brow_!
_M
in repose-
spring sun, going down
this yellow butterfly wings
Gosh, I wonder why I like this
haiku so much… ;-)
It’s a delight to read over and
over, Aurora!
:-)
Lary
I echo lary, Aurora. This is a good one to read over and over. Enjoyed.
Collin
Judith, Bob, Lary, and Collin – thank you.
I think that I’ve read this in Lary’s site, simply haiku and Mokitta. Nevertheless, I feel that I am reading it for the first time. Simply stunning.
Rita – thanks. :)