Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Eric Burke and Pat Nelson: Wednesday Haiku #41





Wednesday Haiku, #40 



Our children:
we cannot escape
political poems


        Eric Burke





Photo by smallwon





snow mound
the sparrow widens its stance
against the wind

                 Pat Nelson





Photo by Jimmy Palma Gil






introducing their children
to society...
strutting sparrows
Issa
translated by David G. Lanoue





best,
Don



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2 comments:

  1. Nice selections, and I really like the way the first poem leads us (well, leads me, anyway) to read the next two as political poems also.
    - Mark

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  2. It's amazing how that happens. Thanks once again for the close reading, Mark.

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