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As it turns, foam, the hostess of the last weekly has asked, and I have accepted, hosting the haiku event for this week. I had been holding out, waiting until Wednesday to accept. Being asked, and already wishing to host, just giving any other taker all the time available to jump in, I went ahead and accepted offering a theme and place to post haiku. I will also endeavor to keep this post at the top of my posting list, so no other posts need be read. Not sure that will satisfy all, but that is the way of it, and what I can do. Worthwhile if it encourages involvement and keeps the event going.
Karl recently used 'water' as the theme. And it was a refreshing notion. Then, in that same event, Serendipity used the picture of a fantastic waterfall in her post. The two together just pulled me to this theme. There is something about waterfalls that just... attracts me. If I knew of one to which I could hike, around here, I would take even a long trail, perhaps camping along the way, just to shower, perhaps spend a day exploring, taking it in, and sleeping nearby, if allowed. The visual appeal is stunning. The idea of a natural shower is alluring. The love of water generally is sort of mystifying. And the idea of cool, perhaps chill, to someone who is almost always overheated or feels as such, is immense.
into without fear
called by cold blue and swirls
blessed from above
By the way... ask and you shall receive. Perhaps my next trip to the V.A. Hospital, if it is an early appointment. Best get my hiking boots back into trim and check my pack, check it twice.
Certainly a refreshing theme!
ReplyDeleteIt might take a few days, but I'll be posting something.
Oh, no rush. Enjoy life as you may and return when it is time.
ReplyDeleteHere is one to start..
ReplyDeleteDarksome waters churn
Frothing over mossy rocks..
Erosive chaos
Hmmm, yeah. I like term darksome. Uhrm, go figure, mind you.
ReplyDeleteI am enjoying your poem, actually, precisely because it brings things I wasn't considering into focus. Moss, erosion, chaos. Biological, mechanical, and metaphysical, spiritual? Something.
I like darksome too.
ReplyDeleteI stole it, actually, from Sir Gerald Manly Hopkins' poem Inversnaid... My favorite poem, btw.
Always a bit dubious of titular folk. A quick look set that to ease, mostly. Nice poem too. I almost wish I had the patience to read poetry. Almost being key. :p Glad someone does though, or I might not have met "darksome".
ReplyDeleteOh, he is not titular. I always make that mistake of putting a sir in front of his name. Don't know why..
ReplyDeleteHe was a Jesuit priest.
Thanks for stepping in Doom. Very crazy busy week with long days for me, but finally a break.
ReplyDeleteWaterfalls are certainly a draw for many humans. Is it water, moving water, or raw power?
I offer up haiku to match your visual.
Concealed behind falls:
mosses, secret ouzel nest.
Mysterious world.
Vertical blue ice,
yields steps to a climber’s axe.
In summer flows free.
In desert canyons
invisible to most, but…
how was this gorge cut?
Serendipity
foam,
ReplyDeleteOh, it's odd how we... have little oddities of our own. We know, but... Hmm, it may be that you have given him a title. Some deserve but do not have. Yes, I researched, a bit.
Serendipity,
I'm happy to host, in turns. I've learned to really enjoy the whole thing, as entrant or host, and always as reader. Glad you could make it, and... yeah, I understand the busy week thing. Urhm, within my worldview albeit.
Triplets, you say? :) As to the draw? Yes, and more, sometimes in groups, sometimes individually. Something about it... an artifact of birth too?
You and critters, I swear! No, not a lament, an amazement. I enjoyed the second for the mixing of seasons and natures of the flow. The last one just makes me grin, and reminds me to check the weather, and for the past few days, before exploring those "mysteries". :p Oh, I'd survive it, trust me. It's just that I'd have to do extra work to get my boots dried properly and back into leather trim and road worthiness. And I'd probably drink some of that nasty stuff. Gives me a sore throat for a bit, it does. Oh... trust me. But don't go in with me. ;)
Children's laughter, squeals..
ReplyDeleteDroplets spray indulgent moms -
Welcome heat respite.
With grown sons, it's a memory for me now..
But walking up to the Y during the summer, I pass by the outside kiddie pool where children still play in and around a variety of pool spouts and fountains.
Serendipity,
ReplyDeleteI think it's amazing when falling water freezes.
I've only seen frozen water fountains but have personally not seen frozen waterfalls .. Except online, of course.
Foam,
ReplyDeleteWhen you climb a blue-ice waterfall for the first time it is a new experience. Standing on frozen water, for me, is second nature since I grew up in northern latitudes. But until I started ice climbing, my experiences had been horizontal.
Doom, yes me and my critters, plants, too. I am pretty connected into the natural world. There is so much yet to learn. And yes, do mind the flash floods. A "dry" waterfall can be pretty impressive when the conditions are right.
BTW, I'll volunteer to put up a theme - starting Monday - for this coming week. I'll be incommunicado the following week, back at the repair spa.
Serendipity