Sunday, March 21, 2010

aises
on ma broo
the priest's snell thoum




ashes
on my forehead
the priest's cold thumb

(winner Caribbean Kukai #11)

6 comments:

  1. Good one!
    __I need to find more time... and view Caribbean Kukai more closely.

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  2. i like this, i can almost feel the cold thumb, excellent....

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  3. Great moment, and congratulations.

    By the way, on a recent trip to London, I picked up a book called Haiga: Illustrated Haiku Poems, which included this verse

    cat's face
    amongst spring flowers–
    a dead mouse hanging

    by John McDonald. Is that you?

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  4. congratulations. very good haiku

    Andrzej D.

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  5. it is indeed Bill - not long after I started writing haiku
    john

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  6. Well, John, you showed a lot of promise, which you've been fulfilling ever since.

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