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 All have been approved by the authors; all include publication credits (except one from Patricia Machmiller which is unpublished); all are from the U.S. Pacific coastal rim (my region).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.
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!
I liked this. Everything happening in a flash, a split second maybe.
'lightening - shadow - against the fortress wall.'