echocardiogram
the underwater singing
of my heart
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Marianne Paul
Marianne Paul is a Canadian poet and writer. Her book, Body Weight, A Collection of Haiku and Art, placed first in the Haiku Canada Marianne Bluger Award for chapbooks. Marianne is also honoured to have won the Jane Reichhold Memorial Haiga Competition, the Vancouver Cherry Blossom Haiku Festival, and Sonic Boom’s VISPO Contest for visual poems. Her latest book is the drift from here to where, a collection of haiga. Marianne’s happy obsessions include book arts and bookbinding, easy kayaking, shade gardening, and back porch birdwatching. She has started a small press, paper heron books, that features one of a kind hand-crafted chapbooks. View all posts by Marianne Paul
I love Marianne Paul's poem…I just had a echocardiogram so it really spoke to me. Great job!
Excellenthaiku Marianne. It captures the the nature of the heart.
echocardiogram
the underwater singing
of my heart
—Marianne Paul
What an utter sublimely beautiful phrase, something I love in haiku, thank you!
Alan
echocardiogram
the underwater singing
of my heart
I have never heard this condition ever described so beautifully. A memorable haiku Marianne.
Lovely!
well, this will be my thought from now on, while being tested…