week fourteen
my wine glass
full of water
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Jessica Malone Latham
Jessica Malone Latham, M.A. is the author of cricket song: Haiku and Short Poems from a Mother's Heart (Red Moon Press) and chapbooks, clouds of light (wooden nickel press) and all this bowing</em. (buddha baby press). Her poetry has appeared in dozens of journals and anthologies, and she is the recipient of several awards. Most recently, Jessica's poetry has been featured in the Seasons of Haiku path at Holden Arboretum in Ohio, and on Mann Library's Daily Haiku. To see more of Jessica's work, to purchase her collections, or consider taking one of her poetry courses, visit her website: www.jessicalatham.com View all posts by Jessica Malone Latham
As a recovering alcohol, 32 years now at 67, I greatly appreciate this poem; excellent!
Interesting. As a mama, I thought she was pregnant. Lovely ambiguity! Excellent poem.
I too thought she was pregnant! Great twist, love it!
Thank you all for your kind comments. I did write this during my fourteenth week of pregnancy, but I also liked the double meaning. My father was an alcoholic and I enjoy how the poem can also be applied for those with alcoholism.
Refreshingly different topic for a haiku poem.
Haiku, erroneously labelled as ancient – yet isn't writing ancient, and communicating (?) – like all forms of communication in art has its antecedents in older times, but is a modern poetry, and thus with the rise of alcoholism in younger generations, a good topic to capture in itself.
Yet the haiku is actually about pregnancy, itself an ancient art, and wonderfully carries the roundness of pregnancy and the cyclical themes with the wine glass, currently filled with water.
A well thought-out haiku!
Alan
This one made me smile :)
marion