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Hello Poets,
Hooray! Robyn's hosting Poetry Friday. How does our Artsy Letters friend keep up as the holiday's approach? I'm delighted that she's celebrating more haiku publications these days. Pop over to see her beautiful post at Life on the Deckle Edge for an uplifting sampling of her work.
I think of haiku when I see Robyn's name. She's skilled in more poetry forms and art in general. However, her haiku are extraordinary. She inspires me to haiku -- too.
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| (c) Linda Mitchell November 12, 2020 |
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| (c) Linda Mitchell November 12, 2020 |
Oooh. I especially love your second. I can feel it! I'm imagining skeletal fingers (not quite sure why) and wind-whipped tendrils. Biting/pins is perfect!
ReplyDeleteYou haiku'd, too! Gorgeous curtains!
ReplyDeleteLinda, such a lovely image of your "curtains." Your haiku have inspired me this week.
ReplyDeleteWasn't Robyn's post so chock-full of goodness and possibilities? I got inspired thinking about doing December twitterku again. Both of these are golden nuggets, especially "sister." Such a moment captured!
ReplyDeleteLinda, I am full of peace after reading your haikus. The first one is such a unique way to present a beautiful picture of autumn with nature's curtains filling the space.
ReplyDeleteI love your haiku about your window. Peaceful. It grounded me. thank you. And with your second I thought of my sister in far away California.
ReplyDeleteYour images are special, Linda. Robyn has been an excellent teacher!
ReplyDeletePerfect day for your lovely haiku. The window one is my favorite. :)
ReplyDeleteLovely haiku times two, Linda. Your curtain image lingers. :)
ReplyDeleteIn the brief space of 34 syllables you offer contrasting thoughts and ideas Linda. They are bookends these haikus and it provokes me to pause and think. Thought provoking while delivering an economy of precise and meaningful words.
ReplyDeleteLove it!
ReplyDeleteYour haiku have movement, Linda! The "curtains" show the moving trees and leaves. The brush moves through the speakers hair. Wonderful!
ReplyDeleteWonderful, Linda! So different, yet each is effective on its own terms. Writing "sister" in second person is such an interesting twist—it amplifies the poem's sense of urgency.
ReplyDeleteYou know you have SO made my day/weekend, Linda, with your kind words! Thank you. And thanks for sharing these poems. I would echo being drawn to those lovely curtains, and the idea of 'butternut trim' outside - and yet I'm more pulled to the power and electricity & many layers of that second poem. As Kat says, that "biting/pins" is a potent combination!
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