An Eskimo waits
at the side of the road...
Caribou hooves.
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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13 comments:
An Eskimo waits
at the side of the road...
Caribou hooves.
Link with 972: Aboriginal.
[I worked in Yellowknife a number of years back. One morning I went out for breakfast and on my way to the restaurant I walked past a Eskimo at the side of one of the streets. At his feet were some Caribou hooves that were tied together. He was standing there as if waiting for someone to pick him up. I inquired with the locals later and found that such a sight was not an uncommon occurrence in the town.]
I like this one, too. Great visual.
Interesting place :)
The man's road begins, the Caribou's road is finished.
I like your poem very much. There are many stories inside.
...as if the Caribou's hoof would be a talisman...
Thank you for sharing.
now I'm curious about the hooves
enjoyed
john
What do they use the hooves for?
interesting... conjures up mystery and adventure :)
great sense of sound - and silence
Wonderful! I invite you to post at The Open Window on Saturdays.
http://theopenwindow1.blogspot.com/
Aurora: Thanks.
Andrew: :-) The wild frontier.
Dana-Maria: Thank you. I think there might have been an aspect a "trophy" involved with this.
Pamela: It was more that the actual hooves...it was about the first 12-24 inches of its legs.
John: Thanks.
Pat: I'm not sure, probably to make soup later. :-)
Polona: Yes, it was a bit of a mystery and that place was a frontier (still is).
Floots: Thanks.
Kathleen: Thank you.
I really like how this incorporates the senses. Powerful!
GZ: Thanks!
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