The days seem to move more swiftly now in these 28 Days of Unreason. Here is Jim Harrison’s line for today, drawn from his collection Songs of Unreason, followed by my poem, a Haiku:
“We walk the bottom of an ocean we call sky” ~ Jim Harrison
Limitless blue sky
no fear of drowning below
the welcoming clouds
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Jilly plunges into Haiku! Nice. I think this has it all – interchangeable first/last lines, relationship to nature, Taoist/Buddhist thought, and we can probably nudge “clouds” and “sky” into summer Kigo. More importantly though, we like where this takes us, feeling limitless but not overwhelmed. We are welcomed to swim in this ocean, not worry or panic from its endlessness.
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No fear of drowning … thank heavens – uhm, hope that wasn’t a pun!
Collaborations like these certainly inspires one! Here’s mine: https://pviljoen.wordpress.com/2017/08/01/walking-the-seasons/
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That was a pun! You don’t get off that easy! 🙂
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Yep – I saw it, too!
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Blush!
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Hahaha!
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So glad you enjoy the collaborations! (The August Challenge – Casting Bricks will open on Friday. Do hope you join in again!)
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A worthy haiku, Jilly! All of the sky in so small a space. Next week, banzai gardening.
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NO!!!!! Thanks, Charley.
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Lovely haiku! The quote had me scratching my head.
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Uh huh – a tough one.
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I love clouds and your post. The quotation inspired me:
https://revivedwriter.wordpress.com/2017/08/01/an-ocean-we-call-sky/
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Awesome!
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We are at the bottom of the sky and like fish in water have no need to fear drowning. This Harrison quote makes sense and is a good way to view the sky.
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Funny, this quote baffled me! 🙂
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Very nice! Makes me picture the clouds as waves high above.
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Ooh! Ooh! I know exactly what this means and it triggered a memory…
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Hooray!
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Ok, here is my attempt, Powerful Currents, thanks for this prompt!
http://wp.me/p8GM4F-u8
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Here’s a contribution. I have to admit, I’ve read yours, and it’s lovely. A haiku is so tiny, every word has to count. All of yours do, like broad brush strokes.
https://janedougherty.wordpress.com/2017/10/20/there-is-a-road-home-now/
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High praise, Jane; thank you!
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A good haiku is hard to write. I know!
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Me, too. I struggle with the form more than not.
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For such a brief form it has a lot of rules.
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It does, if you mind the rules. I tend to be reckless with restraints. I write for Frank Tassone’s Haikai Challenge each Saturday and he tends to free me up to play with Japanese forms. That’s a good thing, since the play will bring me around to eyeing those pesky rules more closely in the long run.
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I stick to the syllable count like hanging onto a life buoy. If I didn’t have one strict rule to follow, I’d have to worry about those hinge words and subtle shifts in meaning and suchlike.
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Yes, but it is all those other things, like the season words, that get me in trouble. A sound scolding sends me flying into avoidance. 🙂
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It’s all that mystique around the word choice that puts me off. A short, three line poem about nature is about the closest I ever get to ‘the real thing’.
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Yep! The truth is, unless we speak and write in Japanese, we cannot attain to the rules.
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And look at the world in the same way. Tough job when you think about it.
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