within rain…
just the fluted song
of a wood thrush
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Jo Balistreri
Mary Jo Balistreri has has had three books of poetry published and a chapbook. In 2015 she began studying haiku and today it is almost exclusively her poetry of choice. Recent poems of her have appeared in Modern Haiku, Frogpond, Presence, Blithe Spirit, Whiptail, and bottle rockets. She has been honored in New Resonance 12, 2020 and The Red Moon Anthology of English Language haiku, 2021.
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A most beautiful haiku! Everything works, from that opening line of 'within rain' and the ellipsis triple dots (of rain) to "just" which acts as a pivot amongst the musicality of the entire scene.
Alan Summers
Call of the Page
fantastic poem. mesmerizing!
I agree!!! :-)
Beautiful – thank you
I agree! :-)
Beautiful, Jo! I love the word “fluted” to describe both the shape of the sound and its woodwind quality. And how the sounds of rain and the wood thrush fit together naturally and musically.
Agreed! It's 'just' right and so much more. It's a brilliant haiku and it does far more, and brightens my day each time I read it.
fluted
one word makes the difference
'just' so! Utterly beautiful haiku, and breathtakingly expansive. Thank you tinywords for adding this haiku!
Lovely haiku — in California we have hermit thrushes and you captured the beauty, transcendence
and lightness of the song coming through the rain!
Yay!!!! :-)