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Saturday, July 20, 2013

I Quote, You 'Ku - Day 20

"Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living."

~Helen Keller

Your challenge is to write a haiku or tanka (or choose one of your previously published works) that has a connection with the themes/feelings/images of the above quote, without just restating what has appeared in the text, to create a haibun. Play around with it and see what you come up with. Enjoy!

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7 comments:

  1. P K PadhyJuly 20, 2013 at 1:41 PM

    budding flower--
    I restore my hope
    within

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  2. DeterministJuly 20, 2013 at 4:34 PM

    what is handicapped
    when the blind see so clearly
    and speak such wisdom?

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  3. Kat CreightonJuly 20, 2013 at 4:46 PM

    reading Milton...
    between the lines I find
    my own paradise

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  4. CaroleHJuly 21, 2013 at 9:42 AM

    many summers ago
    I read rhymes to chickens . . .
    this mouldy old shed
    now shares my secrets
    with spiders and a brown snake

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  5. Terri L. FrenchJuly 21, 2013 at 10:04 AM

    deaf and blind
    she tastes a bit of autumn
    in the late August air

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  6. AnonymousJuly 22, 2013 at 3:22 PM

    July 20: stillness

    I was so quiet
    I could not hear my soul
    until you reached for me

    Gary B

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