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Beneath Thin Snow: Triparshva
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| Side 1 |
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beneath thin snow
how brightly coloured the leaves
on this mountain path |
Shohaku (tr. Darlington) |
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a halo of morning frost
on the old bull |
CM |
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a pair of thrushes
ruffling their feathers
while I shave |
CSJ |
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"I want some water"
his wife calls from upstairs |
GE |
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pale and feeble
in the heat haze
daytime moon |
AW |
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a mound of pearly silks
tumbles from the basket |
SS |
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| Side 2 |
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this time
it's Saké then Heart of Fire
closely followed by Irish Cream... |
KE
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along the quay, vendors
hawking their wares |
CM |
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the pucker
of her nipples in the cool
sea breeze |
KE |
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at the Valentine's dance
wheelchairs roll to the beat |
GE |
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rattling through
the station where we parted
so many years ago |
AW |
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all our tomorrows blighted
by peak everything |
KE |
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workhouse walls
still hold the crumbling echo
of mothers' cries |
ND |
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katydids' songs of praise
at Amma's pink ashram |
KE |
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a rose window
in the vast indigo sky
the moon |
SS |
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one scarecrow working
a field of broken pumpkins |
CM |
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| Side 3 |
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dominoes topple
hardly a murmur
from the crowd |
GE |
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vanilla and mint ice-creams
"that's mine! that's mine!" |
SS |
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how would it be
if every country's flag
flew white? |
ND |
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threaded with ribbons
of sound this catcall night |
KE |
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on bare boughs
tiny starlet blossom
gaze heavenward |
MW |
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meltwater - he speaks
of harnessing the sun |
AW |
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Participants:
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| Carole MacRury (USA) |
| Colin Stewart Jones (Scotland) |
| Gerald England (England) |
| Alison Williams (England) |
| Susan Shand (England) |
| Kathy Earsman (Australia) |
| Norman Darlington (Ireland) |
| Mary White (Ireland) |
Composed in the Facebook Renku Group during
December 2008 and January 2009. Sabakis, Norman Darlington & Moira
Richards.
Related articles
in this issue of Simply Haiku:Beneath Thin Snow:
Notes by Carole MacRury, Alison
Williams, Susan Shand, Kathy Earsman, Norman Darlington, Mary
White, Gerald
England.
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