Declaring a truce ?? ? he slurps from his water gun ?????? ? to cool himself.
First published in Modern Haiku (1.3, 1969) as part of the sequence ?Boy Montage?.
Published by
Sydell Rosenberg
Sydell Rosenberg (1929-1996) was a charter member of the Haiku Society of America, founded in 1968. Her first haiku published in a journal was in American Haiku, in 1967. She received her M.A. in English as a Second Language from Hunter College in NY in 1972, and became a teacher. Much of her haiku reflects a city sensibility. Syd also wrote and published other poetry, as well as prose. For several years, her haiku have been used by teaching artists with the NY non-profit arts education organization, Arts For All, to teach students in two public schools the basics of art, music, and theater. Syd?s new picture book, H Is For Haiku: A Treasury of Haiku from A to Z,was released in April 2018 by Penny Candy Books (pennycandybooks.com). She was married to Sam Rosenberg (d. 2003) for approximately 40 years. Her children are Amy Losak and Nathan Rosenberg. Amy, a veteran healthcare public relations executive in NY, is now writing and publishing her own short poems in an effort to continue her mom's legacy. View all posts by Sydell Rosenberg
Ha! This one brought a smile to my face and memories back of my three brothers playing in our garden with water pistols during the school holidays.
Lovely. :)
marion
Hi Marion, thank you for your kind compliment about my late mom's haiku, and your remembrance. I feel quite confident that this haiku, and the others in the "Boy Montage" sequence, are about my brother. Since they were published in 1969, he would have been about nine years old then! Thanks again, Amy Losak for Sydell Rosenberg
I hadn't noticed it was published in 1969 – and how wonderful it is almost certainly about your brother. A very special haiku indeed.
marion
Originally posted in 1969–that is fantastic! And, what a lovely moment to be brought back to. :)
Originally published, I mean. :)
Hi Gisele, thanks for your kind comment! I tend to use post and publish interchangeably these days myself, since we're in the era of digital media and "content creation." I understood what you meant (smile). Best regards, Amy
This is a really special haiku, and I'm glad tinywords was able to republish it. From 1969 no less!
Thank you — I appreciate your kind words! My mom would be so pleased.
I love reading these articles because they’re short but inamioftrve.