Matthew Moffett lives in Mount Pleasant, Michigan, with his wife, two kids, and a Shetland sheepdog. His work has previously appeared in Frogpond, Modern Haiku, Bones, and Sonic Boom, among others.
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__ You've stirred each reader's thought, Nifty Matthew!
beyond tired words
assign value with our sense
of the fallen leaves
__ That metaphor: – tired words… fallen leaves-, off, to another purpose. _m
Ah! Summer grasses!
All that remains
Of the warriors’ dreams
Basho 1644-1694
Translated by: R. H. Blyth
The two paired tell a story: though we may we try to escape the rhetoric, both it and its consequences remain. We mustn't forget what lies beneath the grass.
__ You've stirred each reader's thought, Nifty Matthew!
beyond tired words
assign value with our sense
of the fallen leaves
__ That metaphor: – tired words… fallen leaves-, off, to another purpose. _m
This haiku brought to mind another grass image:
Ah! Summer grasses!
All that remains
Of the warriors’ dreams
Basho 1644-1694
Translated by: R. H. Blyth
The two paired tell a story: though we may we try to escape the rhetoric, both it and its consequences remain. We mustn't forget what lies beneath the grass.
as quickly
as by-lines dry
blood flows
–ANH
Beautiful!
This one is even more effective when read aloud.
marion
Wonderful!
a breeze beyond rhetoric rippling meadowgrass
—MATTHEW MOFFETT
Love "a breeze beyond rhetoric" and that it is rippling the meadowgrass!
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zigzagging…
the meadow buttercups
into a robin’s song
Alan Summers
Blithe Spirit (2017)
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