passwords
the family pet
lives on
Published by
Marianne Paul
Marianne Paul is a Canadian poet and writer. Her book, Body Weight, A Collection of Haiku and Art, placed first in the Haiku Canada Marianne Bluger Award for chapbooks. Marianne is also honoured to have won the Jane Reichhold Memorial Haiga Competition, the Vancouver Cherry Blossom Haiku Festival, and Sonic Boom’s VISPO Contest for visual poems. Her latest book is the drift from here to where, a collection of haiga. Marianne’s happy obsessions include book arts and bookbinding, easy kayaking, shade gardening, and back porch birdwatching. She has started a small press, paper heron books, that features one of a kind hand-crafted chapbooks. View all posts by Marianne Paul
Love this! So true!
Wow , this really got to me. Thanks Marianne.
Our beloved cat lives on in just this same way! Thanks for a lovely haiku..
Beautiful and beautifully executed.
anniversary
every dog
looks like yours
Indeed!
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passwords
the family pet
lives on
—MARIANNE PAUL
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Marianne PAUL has that gift with words where even six words has the weight of a novella. Just like Hemingway's mythical six word short story – lifted from a small ads listing – carried such resonance that he used it to extend his bar bill, so Marianne makes us think beyond the last word.
We all have passwords and not for our checking account and social media accounts etc… but words that are triggers to open up a whole avenue of meaning with side roads opening up on both sides.
Economical in the number of words used but expansive in the way we know a certain word, uttered on page or tongue, or even a smell or taste, brings back a whole forest to us.
Alan
Wonderful and so true. I forwarded to my family who often uses our beloved dog's
name as a password. Intimate family haiku.
Aw, yes so true!
This one is so relatable. A haiku that is sad but also manages to make the reader smile fondly as they remember their own pet.
marion
Yes. Oh yes! Beautifully written and true.
sooooooooooooo true awesome.
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