goutweed patch--
blades of quack peek out
here and there
About Masago
- Masago
- Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
- From "The Haiku Anthology" I became interested in Haiku and I have since written numerous haiku, senyru, and tanka. "Masago", my haiku pen-name, means "grain(s) of sand" in Japanese. I have recently started learning Esperanto and Japanese. A few years ago I developed a new eastern verse form which we now call 'Renhai'.
My Blog List
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Ice Can Look Nice4 years ago
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A Dream, A Prayer8 years ago
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6 Hantu yang Muncul di Toilet11 years ago
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distant thunder12 years ago
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welcome spring14 years ago
4 comments:
nice image (thanks for making me learn new words)... am i wrong or is there another layer in this one?
polona: Thanks...as with most haiku the reader is encouraged to explore alternate interpretaions. With this haiku you are correct, there are other layers.
I leave one hint... goutweed is considered a weed yet many (here in Edmonton, at least) grow them as a decorative garden-bed cover. To see weeds growing among "weeds" seemed an odd juxtaposition to me.
Two invasive species - this sounds like a war right in the backyard:
Goutweed
Wealth of green
not really welcome
Nevertheless
They don’t care
ashi: Yes, although we planted the goutweed and kind of like the look. Now the quack...that's another story!
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