Polona, you never cease to instruct me in my haiku apprenticeship. Everything is able to be turned to haiku, and here is such a genuine modern "experience" for a poet to notice and to write about, (though few could do it with Polona's humour).
I love especially the subtle reference to Basho's famous crow haiku:
A crow
has settled on a bare branch –
autumn evening.
(Trans. Robert Hass)
I guess even with advanced technology like satellites, the news is still pretty bare, stark and withered.
As usual, the author expertly executes a haiku, and incorporates a playful mood in its own right as well as communicating with Basho that he has brought many crows to haiku, and that as he would have loved, we are global now.
evening news
two crows on the rim
of a satellite dish
—POLONA OBLAK
*
mist haze-
a crow cleans its beak
on a rooftop aerial
Alan Summers
Publications credits: Azami 38 (Japan 1996); First Australian Online Anthology (1999); Cornell University, Mann Library, U.S.A. "Daily Haiku" poet (October 2001); The Haiku Calendar 2003 (Snapshot Press); Watermark: A Poet’s Notebook – Crows (2004); Wing Beats: British Birds in Haiku (Snapshot Press, 2008)
September 30th, 2014 at 8:42 am
lovely
September 30th, 2014 at 8:46 am
A chequered jay
peers out of a drainpipe,
drops a dry leaf.
September 30th, 2014 at 11:24 am
I like it. Reminds me of one of my own
dog
smells all the bushes–
morning news
September 30th, 2014 at 11:54 am
Ah, this made me smile! :)
marion
September 30th, 2014 at 12:22 pm
Love this :)
September 30th, 2014 at 3:01 pm
Polona, you never cease to instruct me in my haiku apprenticeship. Everything is able to be turned to haiku, and here is such a genuine modern "experience" for a poet to notice and to write about, (though few could do it with Polona's humour).
I love especially the subtle reference to Basho's famous crow haiku:
A crow
has settled on a bare branch –
autumn evening.
(Trans. Robert Hass)
I guess even with advanced technology like satellites, the news is still pretty bare, stark and withered.
Thanks Polona for enriching us with this today.
Strider
October 1st, 2014 at 3:12 pm
As usual, the author expertly executes a haiku, and incorporates a playful mood in its own right as well as communicating with Basho that he has brought many crows to haiku, and that as he would have loved, we are global now.
evening news
two crows on the rim
of a satellite dish
—POLONA OBLAK
*
mist haze-
a crow cleans its beak
on a rooftop aerial
Alan Summers
Publications credits: Azami 38 (Japan 1996); First Australian Online Anthology (1999); Cornell University, Mann Library, U.S.A. "Daily Haiku" poet (October 2001); The Haiku Calendar 2003 (Snapshot Press); Watermark: A Poet’s Notebook – Crows (2004); Wing Beats: British Birds in Haiku (Snapshot Press, 2008)
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October 2nd, 2014 at 9:06 am
Love it! So well crafted.