Friday, October 4, 2024

A Room of My Own: Moonlit Dark Haiku

the neighbor's garden
fading into moonlit dark
a foreclosure sign


Added:

three glasses down
the lingering smell
of his apology


Added: Against the Drowning Noise of Other Words, CII: "between fireballs"

calm between fireballs ...
moonlit ravens' kraa-kraa-kraa
darkening


Added: Against the Drowning Noise of Other Words, CIII: "settler violence"
First Three-Line Visual Tanka

          under        slate-gray            skies

                                   |                          
a settler aims his gun | a boy throws his rock
                                   |

          tank track marks on the grass


FYI: The "single vertical line" has become the standard format for tanka written by the Japanese poets since the latter half of the 19th century; However, Ishikawa Takuboku, author of Poems to Eat and Romaji Diary and Sad Toys,  advocated for and started writing two or three lines, depending on the rhythm of each tanka. For more, see Hiroaki Sato, “Lineation of Tanka in English Translation,” 42 Monumenta Nipponica 3:347-56, Autumn 1987.


AddedAgainst the Drowning Noise of Other Words, CIV: "one-ton bombs"

if one-ton bombs are dropped 
in a Beirut neighborhood
no Israeli’s there to hear them
does they make sounds of death?
in the crawl space, a teen muses


FYI: "If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?" is a philosophical thought experiment that raises questions regarding observation and perception. For more, see To the Lighthouse: A Rhetorical Device, Sarcasm.

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