an albatross
on every shoreline
rising water

 

3 Responses

  1. John S Green Says:

    Quite thought provoking the longer it sits on the plank of my mind. A sad poem. One that calls for action to save our Mother Earth, Gaia.

  2. Alan Summers Says:

    I like that I can read a literary connection which became an idiom:

    An annoying burden: “That old car is an albatross around my neck.” Literally, an albatross is a large sea bird. The phrase alludes to Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s poem “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” in which a sailor who shoots a friendly albatross is forced to wear its carcass around his neck as punishment.

    In the case of Britain, we are surrounded by excessive amounts of raw sewage, a real albatross idiom if there was ever one.

    Terrific haiku!

  3. Alan Friend Says:

    I like that I can read a literary connection which became an idiom:

    An annoying burden: “That old car is an albatross around my neck.” Literally, an albatross is a large sea bird. The phrase alludes to Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s poem “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” in which a sailor who shoots a friendly albatross is forced to wear its carcass around his neck as punishment.

    In the case of Britain, we are surrounded by excessive amounts of raw sewage, a real albatross idiom if there was ever one.

    Terrific haiku!

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