Deborah P Kolodji moderates the Southern California Haiku Study Group, which meets monthly in Pasadena, CA at the Pacific Asia Museum. A former president of the Science Fiction Poetry Association, she is the California Regional Coordinator of the Haiku Society of America. She has published over 800 haiku.
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I was immediately transported back to rural Alabama, to the countryside surrounding Auburn University, where I studied. When I first moved there from Miami, I asked my classmates from the South about the strangleholding plant- they laughed and told me not to stand in one place too long, lest I be engulfed.
This is indeed a haiku moment in the truest sense. The minimalist approach allows the reader share the vines, reaching within to make your haiku the readers own too. Thank you for sharing it.
lovely
I was immediately transported back to rural Alabama, to the countryside surrounding Auburn University, where I studied. When I first moved there from Miami, I asked my classmates from the South about the strangleholding plant- they laughed and told me not to stand in one place too long, lest I be engulfed.
randomness
some produce sometimes-
others never
__ Well felt, Deborah; my humble echo. _m
vine cloak
covers the flaws
peer deep
Dear Debra,
This is indeed a haiku moment in the truest sense. The minimalist approach allows the reader share the vines, reaching within to make your haiku the readers own too. Thank you for sharing it.
Blessings,
Karen
Thanks to all who commented. I enjoy reading your impressions and thoughts.
Deborah
A thought-provoking one, Deborah.
(I was trying to guess what a kudzu was before Googling it, and thought it might be an instrument left out in the rain! :) )
marion