in ecstasy (for One Shoot Sunday)
the constellations cast a spell
on the roiling depths
gurgling in its altered state the sea
bubbles rolling a thousand eyes
as if dying
but in ecstasy enraptured
its frozen depths splintered
as million bits of bliss
an ocean of grief shedding
sheets of unwanted lead
sheen on silver
blinds receding stars those recalcitrant
asteroids mere reflections
on the translucence of illumination
a sea of enlightenment
the body once
a heaving mass of regrets
roaring now soars
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my haiku on Japan’s calamity at the NaHaiWriMo fb site
More than any of the recent and past images of earthquakes and tsunamis, that of Japan’s make of movies cardboard play. Perhaps because haiku is a Japanese art and as an art, it has as its heart, reality and Nature, postings in response to the disaster prompt at the still-on NaHaiWriMo fb site has been good with mostly exquisite haiku. I’ve posted these two so far:
#11c
tsunami–
swirling in the depths lives
and budding cherry trees
#11d
from haiku scribblings
to a prayer
on a giant wave