When I rise up
Let me rise up joyful
Like a bird.
When I fall
Let me fall without regret
Like a leaf.
—Wendell Berry
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sweeping the stair
under the attic window
the sun too is dust
Modern Haiku, Issue 53:3
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learning not to cling
to this floating world
heron ascending in snow
Akita International Haiku Network, World Haiku Series 2021
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letting the grief be ghost orchids
Frogpond Journal 48:1, Winter 2025
Great set!
I love how you retain the hokku feel alongside the haiku tension!
letting the grief be ghost orchids
Frogpond Journal 48:1, Winter 2025
And I love how this can be read straight through as a single line of utterance and also if it was read or performed, there could be a long pause for audience tension!
letting the grief be // ghost orchids
And my own personal additional reading:
letting the grief be ghost (orchid) s
letting the grief be ghosts (orchids)
Every one of your three haiku are equally stunning!!!
Alan
(Alan Summers)
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Really liked all three of your poems, Deborah. For me, they all seemd to suggest the transient nature of everything…
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