disused road roots resurfacing
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Marion Clarke
Runner-up in the Seamus Heaney Award for New Writing 2023, Marion Clarke is from Warrenpoint, Northern Ireland. She has been studying and writing short form poetry since 2012 and her work features regularly in international journals and anthologies. Winner of three Sakura awards and long and shortlisted in the Touchstone Awards, Marion was invited to judge the San Francisco International Haiku Competition 2022, and to edit the September 2023 issue of the haibun journal Drifting Sands. Further info at http://seaviewwarrenpoint.wordpress.com/ View all posts by Marion Clarke
Nice.
Thank you, Dirk.
Great, Marion! Conjures up many feelings.
honesty seeds how she talked about heaven
Thanks, Dawn.
I love your honesty seeds ku. As children we used those seed pods as money – that really brought me back!
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Lovely, Marion! Awesome depth in this.
Thank you, sanjuktaa. It was inspired by the sight of roots coming through the surface of a country road where my grandmother used to take me for walks when I was very young. :)
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Back to your roots can be a good to place to go when you've come to a standstill on a tired old road. A tidy one-liner, Marion.
Thank you, Thomas. It can indeed :)
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Thank you, Dirk. :)
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disused road roots resurfacing
—Marion Clarke
Both a literal account about nature returning to its roots, and a fun one about dying, oops, dyeing as in hair dye.
warm regards,
Alan
LOL Alan, I hadn't thought of that type of roots! :)
Thanks for commenting.
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Hi Marion,
When you write a one-line haiku you have to bear in mind other meanings as a one-line haiku aka monoku can be broken up in different ways by your readers
e.g.
from:
disused road roots resurfacing
to:
"disused road roots" are 'resurfacing'
disused road – (my own) roots resurfacing
Where people dye their hair blonde, for instance, it's a on-off fashion to show some roots of the original hair showing, or quite a bit, or none at all etc…
So it could be a real disused road or a metaphorical road, where your own hair color is showing through, or a metaphorical color is showing through.
Haiku are so short that sometimes they can be read as having a metaphorical layer underneath the surface literal meaning (pun part intended). :-)
warm regards,
Alan
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Sorry it's taken 154 weeks to reply, Josiah, but you might like to join us over on The Haiku Foundation, if you aer still interested in workshopping your haiku. :)
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