just like heaven
–Katie Melua
she said, girl you ain’t
got a prayer, and I thought that’s
a fine place to start
*
odd, all this snow
around, six below, and here
we are blossoming
*
in the bowl, reflection
of sky—kneeling
I drink it
January 3, 2013 by Rosemerry
just like heaven
–Katie Melua
she said, girl you ain’t
got a prayer, and I thought that’s
a fine place to start
*
odd, all this snow
around, six below, and here
we are blossoming
*
in the bowl, reflection
of sky—kneeling
I drink it
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged beginnings, haiku, poem, poetry, prayer | 3 Comments
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I’d like to have that first haiku as a bumper-sticker; although I do like the imagery of the other two.
Maybe due to the sky in the FB pic, I’m seeing the third “beginning” as the caption for Vivian’s Mountain Village bungee-flying.
Love that first one, bumper sticker for sure — front and back bumpers. We had eight below here, but we’re not drinking it. We’re licking it like Popsicles:)
I like part 3 because, first, it recalled the Fench poem, two prisoners looking out through the bars after a storm, one prisoner saw a mud puddle, the other, stars reflected in the water. I love the reverence of drinking the sky from the bowl, the unity of earth and prayer and sky, and the growth of the poem from the first haiku, “you ain’t got a prayer” to the insight and grace of sipping the eternal from the bowl. Both Issa and Basho could have written this. Abraxi. JC