open sky :: SAMVAAD |19th June
- sanjuktaa
- Jun 19, 2022
- 1 min read
hosts: Sanjuktaa Asopa & Vandana Parashar
it all depends on a dandelion seed
the color of frost
---- Tyrone McDonald
( First published on January 31,2013, Mainichi Daily Haiku)
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Like Billy Dee I also remembered William Carlos Wlilliams' red wheelbarrow when I read this ku . Tyrone McDonald has given it a stylish twist and made it so unique and different from the usual dandelion verses we read all the time. His thoughts about this poem are simply these:
Thoughts: Dandelion seeds although a symbol of spring and rebirth reminds me of the grace of snow flakes the way it glides through the air. They are also very faint in color, more closer to grey than white. It's incredible that something so pallid contains such virility.
A beautiful poem. Two-liners have a special impact I realise. Love his work!
This is my favorite 20th Century poem:
The Red Wheelbarrow So much depends upon
a red wheel barrow
glazed with rain water
beside the white
chickens
Williams, William Carlos. The Collected Poems: Volume I 1909-1939 (New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1938)
I like this very much.
Reminds me of William Carlos William's Red Wheelbarrow, an early 20th C imagist masterpiece.
Amused with the beginning
'it all depends on'
A casual way of saying a deeper meaning.