Thanks Barry; couldn’t ask for a better response.
Now the sun shines on the snow, still here.
Doug
> On Apr 8, 2020, at 11:58 AM, Barry Alpert <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Doug, Snow largely missing in Wash DC area this winter, but yet in snowy Edmonton I can still imagine a spring snowfall as a poetic occasion. A perfect 5-7-5 traditional japanese haiku, using 14 words--none of them "extra". Nice distinction between the snow's initial whiteness further illuminated by the moonlight while's it's the branch's genetic green which the moonlight registers for viewers in the dark. Barry
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> On Wed, 8 Apr 2020 10:16:21 -0600, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> above the bright snow
>> the full moon shines on a branch
>> of the evergreen
>>
>>
Douglas Barbour
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https://eclecticruckus.wordpress.com/
Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations & Continuations 2 (UofAPress).
Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
Listen. If (UofAPress):
Shakespeare
drag yr mouldy old bones
up these stairs & tell me
what you died of,
I think
I’ve got it
too.
Sharon Thesen
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