triveni spotlight : 05 august

Kala Ramesh

Aug 5, 20221 min read

triveni spotlight A FEATURE EVERY ALTERNATE DAY! hosts: Teji Sethi and Kala Ramesh guest editor: Billie Dee

Theme: Close Observation

spring lightning—

a flower’s shadow

against the fortress wall

Michael Dylan Welsh

Sammamish, Washington, USA

The Heron’s Nest, XIX:3, 2017.

I am pleased to submit the following selected poems from my personal "favorite haiku" list, one I've developed over the last 30 years or so. All have been approved by the authors; all include publication credits (except one from Patricia Machmiller which is unpublished); all are from the U.S. Pacific coastal rim (my region). I have chosen "close observation" as my theme, a guiding principle in my own writing, and a core element IMO for developing a Haiku Mind.

Peace,

Billie Dee

p.s. Under-lined book titles have embedded links where a reader can go to purchase the book.

5 Comments

Kavita Ratna

Aug 05, 2022

The juxtaposition between the free spirit of the flower and the falling its shadow on a fort wall which contains and restricts - very evocative! Thank you!

Billie Dee

Aug 05, 2022

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Hi Kavita,

Thanks for sharing your astute reading of the poem. The ironic juxtaposition of flower and fortress is part of the powerful appeal of Michael's poem. The fact that the image lasts for only a moment reminds us of our impermanence, of the fragility of our every perception. Then, Poof! it's gone in the blink of a lightning flash.

---Billie

lakshmi iyer

Aug 05, 2022

I liked this. Everything happening in a flash, a split second maybe.

'lightening - shadow - against the fortress wall.'

lakshmi iyer

Aug 06, 2022

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Even I felt it as cinematic!