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We all need to feed, and work, and begging is a long and honourable activity including Zen monks, some of them haikai poets. :-)
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From window washers and vendors to asking alms, and often short of what they need:
I gave a loonie (you need to be Canadian, perhaps, to know what that is…) to a guy at a stop light yesterday. What a light-hearted man – he made me smile much more than the loonie’s worth.
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We all need to feed, and work, and begging is a long and honourable activity including Zen monks, some of them haikai poets. :-)
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From window washers and vendors to asking alms, and often short of what they need:
sunlit sweat
the young vagrant
sucks a thumb
Alan Summers
Haiku Harvest vol. 4 no. 1 (2003)
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Well drawn, Dave. Great ku.
I gave a loonie (you need to be Canadian, perhaps, to know what that is…) to a guy at a stop light yesterday. What a light-hearted man – he made me smile much more than the loonie’s worth.
the homeless gentleman
a little soft shoe
in his stride
A very potent piece. i love it!
Thanks everyone!
Perfect Dave … ! … says it all and more … :)
Beautiful!
Making traffic ,
For the uses of traffic !
Very lovely Dave. Congratulations
another beggar called himself "a moral traffic light" – perhaps they know each other?
Nice way to highlight the positive out of the negative. Wonderful pivot in the second line as well.
Brought me right back to a street in Mumbai over a decade ago, Dave.
marion
I’m impressed! You’ve managed the almost impbesiols.
A very potent piece. i love it!