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Sunday, September 22, 2013

equinox

fall equinox
what I have left
undone

8 Comments:

Blogger Adelaide said...


There's always tomorrow.

Adelaide

8:32 PM  
Blogger Frank... said...

We all leave things undone...

9:00 AM  
Blogger Bill said...

Ah, Adelaide, but tomorrow will be shorter than today.

Thanks, Frank. Good to know I'm not alone.

In fact, I got this from the Book of Common Prayer: "what I have done and what I have left undone." It seemed to me an appropriate autumnal theme, especially, with its balanced construction (which, of course, is presented here in a truncated, and therefore unbalanced form), for the equinox. I hope it works for readers who don't catch the allusion.

10:45 AM  
Blogger Danaelle said...

Yes, an appropriate and interesting automnal theme.

11:39 AM  
Blogger Gillena Cox said...

still some things to be done; pretty sure of that; nice introspective mood

much love...

11:22 AM  
Blogger Bill said...

Thank you, Daniele and Gillena.

3:33 PM  
Blogger Monika said...

Ce haïku me rappelle ce bon vieux conseil de la tribu des procrastinateurs à laquelle j'appartiens :

Pourquoi faire aujourd'hui
quelque chose qu'on peut remettre
à demain ?

;-)

11:20 AM  
Blogger Bill said...

Ah, Monika, I've lived by that advice for eighty years, and, I must confess, things are beginning to pile up.

2:11 PM  

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