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Thursday, November 16, 2006

monument

war monument
a yellow ribbon
around the bayonet

8 Comments:

Blogger J. Andrew Lockhart said...

sad but beautiful

9:41 PM  
Blogger Kai said...

i like it

8:37 AM  
Blogger polona said...

poignant!

10:26 AM  
Blogger Bill said...

Thanks andrew, kai, and polona. A scene observed in western Massachusetts in early November.

5:38 PM  
Blogger floots said...

powerful image

11:29 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

the scent
not the flower
is driving me crazy

_______

Your haikus are full of scent.

6:48 PM  
Blogger Tikkis said...

A girl puts
an yellow carnation
into soldiers rifle

(Carnation revolution in Portugal 25.4.74; my mother-in-law is spending her wintertimes in Algarve, Portugal. )

12:09 AM  
Blogger Bill said...

tikkis, putting a flower in the barrel of a rifle was something that happened at demonstrations against the Vietnam war over here. This time around, we have no draft and no (well, few) demonstrations.

6:25 AM  

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