drought the struggle legible in leaves
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Cherie Hunter Day
Cherie Hunter Day’s haiku and related forms have been widely published in journals and anthologies including: Haiku in English: The First Hundred Years (W.W. Norton, 2013); Where the River Goes (Snapshot Press, 2013); and Haiku 21 (Modern Haiku Press, 2011). Her third full-length haiku collection, for Want (Ornithopter Press, 2017) was shortlisted for The Haiky Foundation's Touchstone Distinguished Book Awards and received an Honorable Mention in the Haiku Society of America's Merit Book Awards. View all posts by Cherie Hunter Day
Beautiful !
A thoughtful poem looking deeply into leaving or living !!
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Shafe’ie Kadkani, Iranian contemporary poet , has a poem written on a conversation between a passing breeze from a desert land and a thorn bush!
The shrub asks the breeze where are you heading so hurriedly?!
The breeze replies:
” To anywhere but this dusty desert! ” and wonders if the shrub desires to migrate from the desert!?
The shrub:
” this is all a desirable dream but i am bounded by my roots to this land “
I love the sound of 'legible in leaves'.
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drought the struggle legible in leaves
—CHERIE HUNTER DAY
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One of our very strongest and powerful writers of haiku in 3-line and 1-line formats.
We are what we sow…
leaves begin to fall this face too evolves from fish
From White Dust Ghosts – a series of haiku poems by Alan Summers
Publication Credit: Tribe issue 22 (October 2013)
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