cherry buds the blue tit’s beak stuffed with string
—Katrina Shepherd
Issue 18.1 | 26 March 2018
cherry blossoms despite dreary fog
Like your blue titted to haiku!
mute swan circles the pond ripples abound~~~
Love that line about their beaks being stuffed with Spring! . . all those red apples amongst the blue tit
Alan Summers
Publication credits: Bones – a journal for contemporary haiku Issue 0.1 2012 reissued 2013 Roadrunner 12.3 MASKS 4 (2012)
Collection: Does Fish-God Know (Yet To Be Named Free Press 2012)
I love the fact I misread the haiku:
—KATRINA SHEPHERD
Now on revisiting and reading it correctly I get two wonderful haiku for the price of one!!! :-)
warm regards,
Alan
…..then I went and misread your comment (as string) Alan, and gave it a like! D'you fancy a joint trip to the opticians?!
Lovely ku, Katrina – a great twist, beautifully executed – really jumps off the page.
Ah, but it is string, and very neatly and nicely clever play on spring/Spring. :-)
You really do need that trip to the optician's Alan! You wrote spring – I thought you wrote string, and gave it a like! Check your diary, I'll give the optician a ring in the morning…..xx
Yes, spring and Spring and then it was how long is a piece of string. :-)
muddy waters… all dressed up nowhere to go
I read this as stuffed with spring which is a wonderful image! ?
marion
I liked the last line "stuffed with string". It speaks of so many things that seem simple and common and yet most of the time we fail to notice them.
Name (required)
Mail (will not be published) (required)
Website
Δ
March 26th, 2018 at 8:40 am
cherry blossoms
despite
dreary fog
March 26th, 2018 at 9:10 am
Like your blue titted to haiku!
mute swan
circles the pond
ripples abound~~~
March 26th, 2018 at 10:15 am
Love that line about their beaks being stuffed with Spring!
.
.
all those red apples amongst the blue tit
Alan Summers
Publication credits:
Bones – a journal for contemporary haiku Issue 0.1 2012 reissued 2013
Roadrunner 12.3 MASKS 4 (2012)
Collection:
Does Fish-God Know (Yet To Be Named Free Press 2012)
March 27th, 2018 at 10:17 am
I love the fact I misread the haiku:
cherry buds
the blue tit’s beak
stuffed with string
—KATRINA SHEPHERD
Now on revisiting and reading it correctly I get two wonderful haiku for the price of one!!!
:-)
warm regards,
Alan
March 27th, 2018 at 12:01 pm
…..then I went and misread your comment (as string) Alan, and gave it a like! D'you fancy a joint trip to the opticians?!
Lovely ku, Katrina – a great twist, beautifully executed – really jumps off the page.
March 27th, 2018 at 12:28 pm
Ah, but it is string, and very neatly and nicely clever play on spring/Spring. :-)
March 27th, 2018 at 12:52 pm
You really do need that trip to the optician's Alan! You wrote spring – I thought you wrote string, and gave it a like! Check your diary, I'll give the optician a ring in the morning…..xx
March 27th, 2018 at 2:02 pm
Yes, spring and Spring and then it was how long is a piece of string. :-)
March 27th, 2018 at 1:37 am
muddy waters…
all dressed up
nowhere to go
April 11th, 2018 at 6:17 am
I read this as stuffed with spring which is a wonderful image! ?
marion
April 14th, 2018 at 11:44 pm
I liked the last line "stuffed with string". It speaks of so many things that seem simple and common and yet most of the time we fail to notice them.