over the gable
of my ugly house
— the moon
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full-length mirror
not full enough
for the moon
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brighter than ever
the moon tries
to write haiku
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a handful of stones, 3/9/2011
shiki kukai, february 2011
moon viewing party, Haiku Bandit Society, 3/19/2011
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I especially like the second one. Hope you are doing well, Melissa.
Thanks, Alegria and Charlotte. 🙂 I’m hanging in there, Charlotte, still really busy but I think I’ll make it to the end of the semester. Can’t wait for Haikufest!
I love all three but especially he third one, of course!
I, like Alegria, loved all three. I will confess that I felt a little self-aware reading the second. I decided it was definitely the lunar moon reflected in the mirror.
LOL, Yousei…I have written poems where “moon” had a different meaning but for this one it actually had never occurred to me to think of it as anything other than the lunar orb. But now I kind of like the other interpretation. 🙂
😉 I think one of the very best things about poetry is that a reader can come to a poem today, come to a poem tomorrow, and read to completely different poems. The reader is as much a part of the poem as the words on the page. Glad you liked my disconcerting interpretation.
So true, Yousei! I really enjoy having you for a reader. 🙂