Poetic Musings: First Kiss Haiku by Vuong Pham

dandelions

here, there and everywhere ...

our first kiss

Refugee Prayer, 2013

Vuong Pham

Commentary: Juxtaposed with this visually evocative and symbolically rich image of the seemingly endless dandelion field in Ls 1&2, L3, our "first kiss," not only shows a budding romance but also enhances the significance, thematic, emotional, and symbolic, of L1, the floral meaning of which is both a "gift to a loved one that will provide happiness, simple joy, pure love, and a promise to a partner of total faithfulness.

This promise reminds me of the following song by The Beatles:

"Here, There and Everywhere"

To lead a better life

I need my love to be here

Here

Making each day of the year

Changing my life with a wave of her hand

Nobody can deny that there's something there

There

Running my hands through her hair

Both of us thinking how good it can be

Someone is speaking, but she doesn't know he's there

I want here everywhere

And if she beside me I know I need never care

But to love her is to need her

Everywhere

Knowing that love is to share

Each one believing that love never dies

Watching her eyes, and hoping I'm always there....