Oct 201 min read

open sky :: SAMVAAD |20th October

hosts : Sanjuktaa Asopa & Aparna Pathak

fiddleheads

one more turn

of the earth

-- Tom Painting

(Acorn#24, spring/summer 2010)

4 Comments

Kala Ramesh

Oct 25

Beautiful, Sanjuktaa and Tom

sanjuktaa

Oct 26

Replying to

All credit to Aparna for the hard work.

Edited

sanjuktaa

Oct 24

There are some haiku that just make me go 'aah'! I love them without knowing why and so has been the case with this ku by Tom Painting which I had come across when I was new to haiku and have loved it ever since. Although the season is spring,there is a meditative quality about it, something that goes beyond the frugal seven words or mere seasonality. It's upto the readers to find that out for themselves.

The poet has only this to say about the poem:

Having grown up in upstate New York, I was fortunate to live in an area surrounded by woods.Enamoured by the change of seasons, the appearance of fiddlehead ferns signaled the onset of spring…

Kala Ramesh

Oct 25

Replying to

Sanjuktaa,

Can you explain the lines and then tell us why you like it so much.

At present you are telling us about the poem, can you show us how and why you like it so much?

Thanks a lot.