Tuesday, September 27, 2005

"Door 11" - 11 Hay(na)ku Off A Foto by "Stranded" - Lorna Dee Cervantes

from black & white photograph posted on Stranded, "Mayar XIII"


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Door 11



Lubna's
Arch's got
Nothin on you.

~~~

Come
Outside the
In. Be wind.

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Wind,
I invite
You. Dress warmly.

~~~

Weathered
Openings — feathered
Invitations. Take them.

~~~

All
You are
Is straight. Open!

~~~

Long
Grown welcome
Berates the rock.

~~~

After
Dinner, go
Outside. Breakfast! Lunch!

~~~

Birds
Know It —
Need no door.

~~~

How
Long sanded.
Stand still. Gamely.

~~~

Feathered
Paint, sun-split
Timber remembers. Keys!

~~~

Before
You open
Remember to close.


11:38 PM

3 comments:

Pris said...

Lorna
I still find this an interesting form. Do you plan to try to publish the sequence you've been doing, as a group?

Birdie said...

I'm enjoying these. I am not sure what a Hay(na)ku is, but I love reading your versions. Feels like haiku from a sideways universe. Very nice.

Lorna Dee Cervantes said...

seems to be a book of foto hay(na)ku called Poetic of Now, and, dang, it's almost done. There's about 100 of them, almost all from the stranded blog. cool, hippy hay(na)ku, what a trip!

I'm looking for a publisher now. Any interest out there? MANGO Publications, my press, will be printing up cards for the holidays -- at least, that's the plan right now. Visit Dave's photo-blog for a hippy hay(na)ku blog hunt. And, post your own. I posted about a dozen more last night.

Pris, these are your influence, your photo haiku. Form is simple, no syllables to count, harder to do in English. Just 6 words: 1/2-3/4-5-6. Trick is zen, and then getting all the words to "count."

Birdie - "haiku from a sideways universe"

wow -- thanx!