haiku-usa

A blog devoted mainly to haiku and senryu and to thoughts about, and inspired by, haiku and senryu.

Haiku is to poetry as espresso is to coffee.

Monday, April 11, 2005

seventy-two years

nothing special about them

today—

Anonymous Poet said...: You're alive! And you have the capacity to create something worth reading! . . . which many people have not. That's special!; 5:51 PM
Bill said...: Anonymous Poet: I appreciate "worth reading." The piece, in intention at least, is not as negative as you seem to find it. The notion that one's years are not "special" is, in some traditions, a kind of wisdom and even the basis of joy. I can't complain, for instance, that I have been "singled out" for whatever troubles I might have known, since I know that trouble is nothing special. Life is life, to be loved for what it is, without demanding that it be special. And there's always today, but I deliberately leave the rest of that open, to be completed by the reader.; 8:07 PM
Anonymous Poet said...: Interesting thought.; 8:14 PM