Just back from a long weekend trip with Montreal friends to Manhattan and Brooklyn, where we saw art, heard some great old-time banjo music, drank coffee and ate cheesecake, thought about museums and the positive and negative aspects of what they preserve, and caught up with dear friends who live there. We warmed up too -- it felt so good to walk and walk in the spring air and the unique energy field that is New York, and at the same time enjoy being unplugged for a few days.
I haven't had time yet to download and work on my photos, or to write anything longer, but here are three micropoems that emerged during the long drive back to Canada.
Ghostly sycamores
over monkey sheds, seal pools --
back fence of the zoo
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Pink origami
alight on still-bare branches:
first magnolia
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Pale willow tresses
forsythia's sharp yellow
we drive north through spring.
I especially love the last one, Beth. Lovely.
Posted by: Kim | March 23, 2010 at 06:54 PM
The second Haiku is wonderful.
'alight on still-bare branches:' must necessarily be make the magnolia into a spring pioneer.
Posted by: Anil | March 24, 2010 at 01:13 AM
Oh, oh, I'm so envious of the banjo music, having been very much enthused by Dave's recent podcast and the wonderful film project he linked to! Even more envious of the trip to New York and what, and especially who, you saw there, of course.
I'm wondering whether to take my laptop or stay unplugged when I go away for a few days next week - I see the B&B has WiFi, but I think unless truly terrible weather is forecast (somewhat likely - it remains cold and mostly wet in Englnad) I will not take my laptop.
Posted by: Jean | March 24, 2010 at 06:57 AM
I just stumbled on a link to your site that I found on "Time Goes By" and my immediate reaction is simply "Wow"! It's really exciting and energizing to see something so "cool" done by an "almost-conetmporary". (I suspect from a cursory glimpse of your site that you're a bit younger than me- maybe about the same age as my child-bride of 35 years.)
Anyway, you and your site have made my day. Now I'm a "lurker"
Thanks
Posted by: ned (aka "mythster") | March 24, 2010 at 10:07 AM
I love these sharp, clear little vignettes. Just right.
Posted by: Dick | March 25, 2010 at 01:02 PM
some haiku poets often forget the quiet yet ironic philosophical whisper of the third line. yours are not only bent but also beautiful.
Posted by: natalie parker-lawrence | March 29, 2010 at 08:44 AM