Tuesday Poem: Haiku—“after the funeral”
after the funeral
— freeing a bee
from the spider’s web
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(c) Helen Lowe
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Highly Commended, NZ Poetry Society International Haiku Competition, 2009
Published in moments in the whirlwind, Ed. Barbara Strang, NZ Poetry Society anthology, 2009
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Sometimes small redemptions is all we have.
What a beautiful haiku.
Absolutely perfect.
if there is only one thing you can free – you can free it
Beautiful!
Thank you all for the positive feedback on the haiku. I decided to let it ‘speak for itself’ this week—and isn’t that what all writing “should” do, ie if we have to “explain” perhaps we have failed to communicate effectively as writers?