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.

Thursday, November 16, 2006

war monument

a yellow ribbon

around the bayonet

J. Andrew Lockhart said...: sad but beautiful; 9:41 PM
Kai said...: i like it; 8:37 AM
polona said...: poignant!; 10:26 AM
Bill said...: Thanks andrew, kai, and polona. A scene observed in western Massachusetts in early November.; 5:38 PM
floots said...: powerful image; 11:29 PM
Anonymous said...: the scent
not the flower
is driving me crazy

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Your haikus are full of scent.; 6:48 PM
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
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