Stray dogs...
a three-legged pushed aside
by the others.
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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11 comments:
1092. Abused
Stray dogs...
a three-legged pushed aside
by the others
Link with 1091: Challenged.
[We stay at a beach house in Trinidad. A few stray dogs soon appear and beg for scraps. One of them, with only three legs, hobbles around and looks scraggly, tattered, skinny, and scarred. The other dogs push it aside when a few meager morsels are tossed in their direction. We get a kick out of watching this dog standing in the sun on its three legs. Sometimes it starts to to fall asleep doing this but invariably it catches itself just in time before falling over. This dog reminds me a little of people who are abused and underprivileged.]
nice (by the way, must be nice to have a beach house in Trinidad. Can I go there? :) )
so well observed
and
as you say
a three-legged dog can be a metaphor for many things
(i certainly have days when i feel that way)
thank you
nice one vaughn
john
i wonder if the dogs learned the abusive behaviour from humans...
Andrew: Thanks. Actually, the beach was rented but my in-laws live in Trinidad. :-)
Floots: Thanks, I know the feeling (as) well.
John: Thanks.
Polona: You have to wonder.
How fortunate for human beings not to have three legs. Imagine how their own dogs would treat them...!?:)(Weird Thoughts Press)
Poor thing ;(
Borut: Right. Thanks go to our Weird Thoughts Press correspondent.
GZ: Sympathies accepted. ;-)
I'll name him tripod... poor thing
Pamela: That's a cute name!
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