shaken
from my sleeping bag…
seeds of another summer
(Originally appeared in Chrysanthemum 15, April 2014)
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Helen Buckingham
Helen Buckingham lives in Wells, UK. Her work appears regularly in journals and anthologies including: Frogpond, The Heron's Nest, Modern Haiku, Haiku in English: The First Hundred Years (W.W. Norton, 2013) and nada annunaad: an anthology of contemporary world haiku (Vishwakarma Publications, 2016). She won first prize in the Martin Lucas Award, 2016. Her most recent collection is the Touchstone Award shortlisted sanguinella (Red Moon Press, 2017).
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Very nice! Helen.
Having camped many times I can relate to this.
It also reminds me of Nick Virgilioso awesome poem.
lily
out of the water
out of itself
Dear Helen I feel a lovely touch of humor, subtle implication and positive feeling here… maybe planted in a bed…sesame sunflower left? Or psychological. And shaken could mean scattered and or cleared out…for a fresh start… but surely a renewal!
Thanks so much, Kath, for such a thoughtful and wide-ranging interpretation, and to Robert for comparing it to, as you rightly say, Nick's awesome poem!
window pane
through this silence
a snowflake