up-ended turtle:
head and limbs flail
in the gentle breeze
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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'.
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5 comments:
this haiku is absolute perfection, masago!
i love the nature theme. i love the implication of the fragility of life in the line "upended turtle". and i really love the clever contrast in lines 2 and 3 -- the flailing "head and limbs" of the turtle, and the "gentle breeze".
poor turtle!
hope he got back on his feet :)
good one!
Hoto: Thank you for your kind words.
Tim: :-)
Polona: Yes, I hope that in the wild this is an uncommon occurrence. Thanks.
I always hate seeing that. sad.
Andrew: fortunately you don't see it often (at least I don't). :-)
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