hosts: Sanjuktaa Asopa & Vandana Parashar
meadow grasses
a simple yes
would do
--- Grant Savage
( From a two-person renku with Claudia Radmore. Published in A Hundred Gourds)
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hosts: Sanjuktaa Asopa & Vandana Parashar
meadow grasses
a simple yes
would do
--- Grant Savage
( From a two-person renku with Claudia Radmore. Published in A Hundred Gourds)
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meadow grasses
a simple yes
would do
I way I understood it as:
meadow grasses just grow. There is no taking care of it or anything.
Now - maybe it's a debate here - or a discussion or a problem, perhaps, that has been pulling on for some time - days, months?
Or maybe the N is talking to himself - that a simple 'yes' would do.
The jux here is lovely.
I had to read this haiku several times.
Line 1 seems to takeaway most of the thoughts.
'meadow grasses'
What is so special in them that he's waiting for a 'simple yes'?
Is it that he wants to own them? Or wants to retain them and not turn it into a field?
Or wants his cattle to graze?
(Sounds childish)
Or is it about a painting or a photograph of the 'meadow grasses' which he may have clicked and doesn't want to sell.
Or about his lover; waiting for a 'yes'.
Only the poet can describe. Thank you so much Sanjukta and Vandana.
Making an attempt to understand this haiku. I am thinking aloud. I am sure my interpretation is totally wayward or far-fetched. But this ku has intrigued me and I need to explore it. Please help me see other perspectives too.
There are so many different kinds of meadow grasses. And there are so many different responses to a question.
Perhaps a man and a woman are taking a walk in the meadow and during the course of a conversation, one of them asks a question to the other. But instead of giving a simple, straightforward 'yes' as a response, which the questioner is expecting, the companion indulges in a variety of meandering responses (perhaps which give different facets of a…
Hmm ... this one has really set me thinking. Can't figure out the connection between the fragment and the phrase.