Kath Abela Wilson listens poetically to science lectures as she sketches and writes her way around the world with her Caltech mathematics professor/musician husband. Kath, a member of HSA and Southern CA Haiku Study Group, is creator and organizer of Poets on Site, a Pasadena, California-based multi-media poetry performance group. You can hear her and her band of poets read mostly short poems here: http://www.pacificasiamuseum.org/_digital_lounge/audio_tours.aspx
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Enjoyed this one!
wild peppermint
a dock leaf shadow
clings to the bee
Alan Summers
Publications credits: The Basho Museum Memorial Anthology (2001)
Award credit: Commended, The Basho Museum Memorial Anthology, Ueno, Japan 2001
This haiku seemed to have a spiritual quality to me, in that "bee still" reminded me of " Be still and know that I am God…"
and we as "the fallen"…anyway, I liked the overall sense of grace.
Thanks so much for all your beautiful responses here… thanks to tinywords… and to each of the sensitive interpretations… the poem came from the experience of seeing the jacarandas fallen on the path at Caltech…… and the bee (s) still coming and sipping them. I as astonished, as I had never seen or thought of this…but of course, just fallen the sweetness has not dried up, I love Merrill's "his last words…" answer… yes that overtone is there, and the answer so resonant. Thank you Alan, I "love the "wild peppermint" as echo, shadow response…thank you Lisa… for "the sense of grace" you felt in it. Thank Matt… for slipping the jacarandas into your pond… I'm happy the haiku resonates because the original experience … so unforgettable.
Enjoyed this one!
wild peppermint
a dock leaf shadow
clings to the bee
Alan Summers
Publications credits: The Basho Museum Memorial Anthology (2001)
Award credit: Commended, The Basho Museum Memorial Anthology, Ueno, Japan 2001
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A lovely response. Thank you.
his last words
full of sweetness
I liked this very much. Especially poignant as a response.
This haiku seemed to have a spiritual quality to me, in that "bee still" reminded me of " Be still and know that I am God…"
and we as "the fallen"…anyway, I liked the overall sense of grace.
That one went right in. Very nice
Beautiful!
Thanks so much for all your beautiful responses here… thanks to tinywords… and to each of the sensitive interpretations… the poem came from the experience of seeing the jacarandas fallen on the path at Caltech…… and the bee (s) still coming and sipping them. I as astonished, as I had never seen or thought of this…but of course, just fallen the sweetness has not dried up, I love Merrill's "his last words…" answer… yes that overtone is there, and the answer so resonant. Thank you Alan, I "love the "wild peppermint" as echo, shadow response…thank you Lisa… for "the sense of grace" you felt in it. Thank Matt… for slipping the jacarandas into your pond… I'm happy the haiku resonates because the original experience … so unforgettable.
That’s a shrewd answer to a tricky queoitsn