Downsizing is often a sensible career move, and sunflowers make me think of a land where humans are tiny, or should humble themselves so.
A bronze vase makes me think of the ancient Greeks but where Socratic humility is made into humiliation by people in power.
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I'm not suggesting this is in this haiku, just what I also see. As someone with a bigger home but wanting to downsize everything that has accumulated, the simple pleasure of fresh flowers far outweigh a hundred stacking cases! :-)
November 5th, 2018 at 10:17 am
Wonderful ku. The blooming sunflower unveils the essence of life and joy of living.
Blooming flowers–
silence unwraps the
colourful love
Pravat Kumar Padhy
Publication Credit: Asahi Shimbun, February 19, 2016 (Ed. David McMurray)
baby talk
I silently watch
blooming buds
Pravat Kumar Padhy
Publication Credit: The 9th Yamadera Bashō Memorial Museum English Haiku Contest, 2017
November 5th, 2018 at 10:48 am
loves me
loves me not
shredded daisies 🌼
November 7th, 2018 at 1:15 am
I see the sunflowers reflected in the bronze – double the volume of flowers even though the narrator is downsizing! :)
marion
November 7th, 2018 at 11:27 am
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downsizing
sunflowers blooming
in a bronze vase
—VANESSA PROCTOR
Downsizing is often a sensible career move, and sunflowers make me think of a land where humans are tiny, or should humble themselves so.
A bronze vase makes me think of the ancient Greeks but where Socratic humility is made into humiliation by people in power.
.
I'm not suggesting this is in this haiku, just what I also see. As someone with a bigger home but wanting to downsize everything that has accumulated, the simple pleasure of fresh flowers far outweigh a hundred stacking cases! :-)
warm regards,
Alan