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.

Tuesday, June 04, 2013

hosing down

Buddha

First published in A Hundred Gourds

polona said...: deceptively simple yet pregnant with meaning once you look deeper; 9:54 AM
Bill said...: Thanks, polona. I hoped readers would, as you put it, look deeper.; 8:46 AM
Monika said...: Given my limited competencies in Shakespeare's language, I had to look up the different meanings of "to hose off" before I could look deeper. Now I know - and am able to fully appreciate this haiku. Very good one, Bill !; 11:09 AM
Bill said...: Thanks for the effort, Monika.; 1:16 PM