no fences . . .
the spirit of a wild horse
in the gusting wind
Published by
Chad Lee Robinson
Chad Lee Robinson's haiku and related poetry have appeared in over fifty print and online journals and numerous anthologies. His haiku have won many awards, including a Touchstone Award from The Haiku Foundation, a Modern Haiku Award, a Readers' Choice Poem of the Year Award at The Heron's Nest, and a Pushcart Prize nomination. He is the author of two haiku chapbooks, Pop Bottles (True Vine Press, 2009) and Rope Marks (Snapshot Press, 2012). You can read Rope Marks for free at www.snapshotpress.co.uk/ebooks.htm. A third chapbook, The Deep End of the Sky, won the Turtle Light Press Chapbook Contest in 2014, and will be published by the press in late spring 2015. Follow Chad's blog at http://dakotaku.wordpress.com View all posts by Chad Lee Robinson
A gift of freedom …
In tiny words arrive
In my gray workday.
Thank you
Wow! Not only do I want to be there but the way I am touched suggests I am there. I love this astoundingly exciting moment!
Thank you, Chad Lee
As a parent, how often have I asked "Is there something in the air?" to try and explain the "hyperactive" behaviour of children some days. Chad Robinson's poem not only answers that question, he magically transports me back to my own childhood and conjures up that very spell for me to feel and know again!
It is the spirit of a wild horse, and it is carried in the wind! Suddenly I remember those days when there is a sort of electricity in the air and you want to just run around the yard, full of laughter. Fences? There are no fences! Nothing to contain the wild exhilarating energy! I remember literally riding the wind.
Again I must commend Chad Robinson for the brilliant crafting of words in constructing the poem.
The brief first line, "no fences" creates an involuntary small shake of my head – like a wild horse shaking its mane.
Andthe final two lines have a syllable count of 7 and 5, which together make 12, and when you read them aloud a few times you will hear the rhythm of 4 hooves galloping wildly. Absolutely brilliant poetry.
Thankyou Chad for taking us on this exhilarating ride!
both impressive, the poem and the commentary
I'd be hard pressed to identify a haiku written by Chad Lee Robinson that didn't deeply touch me — he pretty much *owns* the prairies as far as haiku is concerned. This one is even more special since I've been horse crazy from the day I learned to say "horsey" as a little girl. Keep 'em coming, Chad! –Billie Wilson
Just fabulous–thank you for this portrait.
Good stuff, always.
Chad Lee Robinson just is. After watching two wonderful Westerns on TV, this is movieland with autthentic aftertastes caught in a grain of sand. Sheer wonderfulness.
Alan
A wonderful haiku. There are fences here in rural Wisconsin, but I am seeing the horses I drive by catch the late and cold Spring winds . . .