hot afternoon —
a city of ants swarm
upon a log
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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
10 comments:
This is a great haiku Vaughn. Back to nature. Very clear image. I can almost feel the ants swarming all over me from here!
One grammatical question (from an Applied Linguistics dropout): Isn't "swarm" a noun? And "swarmed", "swarming" and "swarms" the corresponding verbs.
Karasu: Thanks for the kind words. As for swarm, it can be used as a verb with or without an object:
http://tinyurl.com/fz8mc
Masago/Vaughn. I stand corrected. Sorry. My dictionary confirms that, in addition to being a noun, "swarm" is both a transitive and intransitive verb. I wonder what I was thinking? "Swarm" just didn't look right to me in the context of the haiku. I can see now why I became an Applied Linguistics dropout! And perhaps I shouldn't drink beer, eat potato chips, watch a footy match, and post comments to your blog simultaneously ;-)
further to karasu's post above, i regret to advise that karasu choked on his own beta blog this evening. and despite resuscitation efforts, he and his blog are no longer with us. he has, however, been reborn in the wordpress.com realms as "hototogisu".
wonderful image!
Karasu/hototgisu: No problem. ;-)
Polona: Thanks.
Aurora: Thanks.
i'm fascinated by their aimless purposefulness and this captures it so well
Floots: Yes, it is amazing that out of all that aimlessness they can be so successful. In fact, they are one of the most successful insect species:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant
Thanks!
They don't question they just do. Good one Vaughn!!
Pat: Thanks. Yes, instinct is the driving force I understand..
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