open sky :: SAMVAAD/22nd June
- Aparna Pathak
- Jun 22
- 1 min read
hosts : Sanjuktaa Asopa & Aparna Pathak
tiny frog …
a breaststroke kick
doubles its length
-Quendryth Young
(Shamrock No. 5, 2008)
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hosts : Sanjuktaa Asopa & Aparna Pathak
tiny frog …
a breaststroke kick
doubles its length
-Quendryth Young
(Shamrock No. 5, 2008)
A lovely and unusual image by Quendryth Young here.
She didn't exactly have a backstory but spoke at length about her haiku group in Australia and how this poem came to be written.
The group which I convene on the Far North Coast of NSW, Australia, is known as ‘Cloudcatchers’ and we approach our twentieth birthday in December this year. We all live on the Far North Coast of New South Wales, and take our name from a dominant feature of the area, Mount Warning. This is an extinct volcano which appears to ‘catch’ clouds. Its caldera is rich in nutriments, and common to most folk in the area. Thus our name. We are all under the umbrella of the…
Very nice one.
I'm trying to get the breaststroke and it's not easy!
I loved the lengthening of a frog..a softer way of putting the facts!