when caught
how to release
resentment?
as wind disperses water
as water erodes stone
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Autumn Noelle Hall
Autumn Noelle Hall, tanka prose editor for Ribbons, says tanka holds memory, emotion, people and place. Like her cabin in the Colorado mountains, it is home to husband, daughters, wild birds, waterfalls, an Australian shepherd (and the deer he trails), bears, mountain lions and their tracks through the snow. But tanka is also a form of reckoning and reconciliation; a way to truly see and make sense of the world. Much like her camera, tanka is Autumn?s lens on life.
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Very nice!
For me, the repetition of "water" is itself like an act of erosion. The parallel structure of the last two lines reminds me of Psalms.
yes, how to release resentment, once it it caught…like the commom cold, it makes us feel terrible…
the answer is intriguing: as wind disperses water, not as water itself, but as droplets, vapour, …but slow enough, not like rainfall, like the slow erosion of stone, smoothened out …
wonderful and philosophical
Very poetic and philosophical!
a lone myna
high in the sky
the kite
descends on its weight
holding the silent wind
Pravat Kumar Padhy
Publication Credit:Cattails, April 2017
I scream
in the vacuum of loneliness
and talk to myself
reading the pages of remembrance
with a request wind to reply my voice
Pravat Kumar Padhy
Publication Credit: LYNX, Vol XXVII, Feb 2012
Thank you all for your thoughtful reading and responses to my haiga. Standing on the shore of Lake Superior (where I took this photo) is like standing before Jung?s Collective Unconscious. It is a place of fathomless depth and expanse, where Psalm and philosophy intertwine with symbol and spirit to beget great questions, answers and meaning. . .
I guess the first step is knowing that you've caught it. Philosophical haiku.
marion