Saturday, February 11, 2012

Haiku

Posted for An Mayou (@perlygates)
for @dversepoets Poetics night

a small bullet hole
where the magic seeps in
when no one is looking this way

(c) copyright 2012 An Mayou. All rights reserved.

8 comments:

  1. Now that's the kind of bullet hole a person wouldn't mind!

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  2. smiles...i like how something as potentially ugly as a bullet hole can make a place for the magic to come in...nice...

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  3. This is appropriately cryptic and ambiguous and resonant-- thanks again for the wonderful prompt. xxxxj

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  4. For it to be a haiku/senryu, it would need to be something like this:

    "a small bullet hole
    where the magic seeps in when
    no one is looking"

    I think this is about love, a "shot to the heart." And the way it creeps in when you're not looking or paying attention ... a gradual friendship-to-more kind of love.

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  5. I like that image--jarring, with the danger and hint of death from the bullet hole and then the contrasting image of magic seeping in.

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  6. This is poignantly lovely; reminds me a bit of Leonard Cohen's "a crack is to let the light come in" ... very nice.

    http://aleapingelephant.blogspot.com/2012/02/in-house-of-moon-madness.html

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  7. This image has left me speechlessly in awe !

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