David Oates wrote the books Night of the Potato, Drunken Robins, and Shifting with My Sandwich Hand (the last two of haiku) and is the host of "Wordland" on public radio in Athens, Georgia.
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Ah, reminds me of the famous song "row row row your boat merrily down the stream …Life is but a Dream" and also something from Kabir as well, where we are like paper boats that float until they slowly dissolve in the water.
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Itadakimasu
love letters on blue paper
to every soul fed
Alan Summers
EarthRise Rolling Haiku Collaboration 2016 Foodcrop Haiku (The Haiku Foundation)
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Nice one, David.
this life
paper boats
on a stream
—DAVID OATES
Ah, reminds me of the famous song "row row row your boat merrily down the stream …Life is but a Dream" and also something from Kabir as well, where we are like paper boats that float until they slowly dissolve in the water.
.
.
Itadakimasu
love letters on blue paper
to every soul fed
Alan Summers
EarthRise Rolling Haiku Collaboration 2016 Foodcrop Haiku (The Haiku Foundation)
.
this life
paper boats
on a stream
– David Oates
Mmm, how fragile our journey through life.
Marvellous verse.
Beautiful ku with minimalistic expression. It reminds me of my haiku:
first rain
the paper boat carries
my childhood
Pravat Kumar Padhy
Publication Credits: Asahi Haikuist Network 31.5.2013
Butter Fly Dream Anthology, 2013
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paper boat
the old man unfolds
his memories
Pravat Kumar Padhy
Publication Credit: Otata 19, July 2017
Nicely crafted with subtle philosophical touch.
Yes, David. We are carried along with the flow of everything – nature, everyday living…how much choice do we really have?
Marion
a good one, David!
All the precious ephemerality of this life, nicely captured.