The
taste
of
rain
– Why
kneel?
~Jack
Kerouac
Something a little different today, on my birthday. Above is my favourite haiku, which I wrote about here. You can either write a haiku response to today's "quote" or, seeing as it is a haiku, you can choose to write the prose portion of the haibun. It's up to you. Have fun! I look forward to reading your responses.
Click here for the first post on how I Quote, You 'Ku works. Every poet who posts a poem this month will be entered into the draw to win a copy of A New Resonance 8.
after church a grackle
ReplyDeletea fruit held in its beak
when dark clouds hover,
ReplyDeletethe sky reaches for delight.
denied, it cries tears
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tracking sand
ReplyDeleteon my face
salt tears
That first night last year
ReplyDeleteI knelt before my new lord
and swore fealty
first rain--
ReplyDeletethe barren ground
in colour
birds confused
ReplyDeletethunder lightning hail
then a rainbow
The taste
ReplyDeleteof rain
– Why kneel?
~Jack Kerouac
the rural years
cloudburst welcome; grab the soap
as we run outside
constant rain -
ReplyDeletestill the skylark
sings
after the rain mud pies baking in the sun
ReplyDeleteJuly 31: rain
ReplyDeleteHeaven opened,
windows doors rattled,
we watch the water rise
on the side of the hill.
(I've collected the names for rain (and sun) - over 200 with foreign slang, song titles and objects. This is the rewrite of one.)
Gary B
two months of drought--
ReplyDeletesurprise lilies face
the noon-day sun