open sky :: SAMVAAD/ 2nd March
- sanjuktaa
- Mar 2, 2025
- 1 min read
hosts : Sanjuktaa Asopa & Aparna Pathak
a boy's eyes
the deeper blue
where the big fish are
-- Peter Yovu
( The Heron's Nest, Vol XXVI.4,December 2024)
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Firdaus, Srinivas, thank you so much for your wonderful and analytical observations. You open it up for me and for all the readers in so many ways!
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This is a beautiful haiku. I have always been a fan of Peter Yovu.
Thank you for sharing this, Sanjuktaa and Aparna
Love how the images run into each other. Keeps the reader guessing as to what big fish swim in the depths of the boy’s mind; just as mysterious as the blue depths of the ocean.
My first observation is initial alliteration in this poem. There are three words for which starting letter is "b". This week, we have initial alliteration as a prompt for haikaiTALKS, perhaps that made me observe here
It's a boy, not a fisherman. It's like a zoom out from a blue eye to a part of the sea where the big fish are (which itself is quite big compared to eyes). It's also mystery to me. The poet has cleverly used line 2. The boy's eyes are deeper blue where big fish are or the sea is deeper blue where big fish are?
To me it appears, it's the boy's eyes which are deeper blue when he sees the big fish.…