Bay Street Blues, Savannah, Georgia, July 2008, photo © 2008 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
mask of summer tears
moon over Pennsylvania
sinks into rivers
dark moss covered squares
Savannah moon cloud cover
drapes soldiers and kings
laughter on Bay Street
rattles cobblestone cameras
hmmm, River Street sweets
Augusta new moon
throws heavy arms around me
clean beads of rain sweat
mother-daughter light
since the beginning of time
July Thunder Moon
Full Moon In The Pines, Moon River, MoonPie In Georgia, Moon Under Savannah, Savannah, Augusta, all places in-between, Georgia, July 2008, all photos © 2008 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
-posted on red Ravine, Friday, August 8th, 2008
-related to posts: savannah river haiku, haiku for the live oak, haiku (one-a-day)
Your words feel grounded in what was around you. I am especially struck by the last one, mother-daughter light.
QM, how cool that you were on the lookout for these variations on the Moon. They are all so cool. Love Full Moon road. Would you want to live there? And is that a vanilla covered Moon Pie? Surely not banana???
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ybonesy, I would love to live on Full Moon Drive. It’s right across from a beautiful Georgia lake. 8) I notice a heaviness with these haiku mixed with the lightness and laughter that happened throughout the trip. It was a mixture of both. I really got testing in being able to hold both.
The MoonPie, Liz and I saw them in a little store in a small town in Georgia. The name escapes me right now but Liz bought a newspaper and the front page had this big one ton catfish that a local had caught. I can’t remember the weight. I’ll have to dig it out. It was amazing!
We had the vanilla MoonPie but we debated other flavors. They had three or four boxes of different kinds of MoonPies — chocolate, strawberry, banana. But the vanilla box was the most empty. So Liz chose that one. We got back in the car and Mom, Liz, and I split the vanilla one. I ended up eating most of it. Nostalgia’s not all it’s cracked up to be. 8)
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The poems lead me through a poetic travelogue of your times on the road, in distant cities, under changing moons. They go together, I think, even though they’re separate haiku. A beautiful way to record a journey.
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christine, thank you. The practice of the haiku and my photography practice were the threads of routine I was able to keep going during this last journey home. I was thankful to have something like the haiku, short snips of poetry that kept me present to the moment.
When I was watching the opening ceremonies in Beijing last night, I was blown away by the ancient history of the culture and constantly reminded that haiku came out of those traditions and cultural histories. Very humbling.
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blue moon on the sax
cruising the dark skies crooning
howling wolves chorus
It’s for pondering – no matter where we live on this huge planet, we all see the same moon, and many of us interpret it in our own ways, noting the thousands of ways it weaves in and out of lives and in our writings.
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Bo, beautiful. Thank you for the haiku. The moon and sun are universal connectors. Howling at the moon — one of my favorite pasttimes. 8)
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HAIKU Blossoms – CONTEST open
Good work.
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Thank you, and thanks for stopping by. To all of our red Ravine haiku readers and writers, check out the Haiku Blossoms Contest at this (LINK). Open until April 10th, $130 First Place prize!
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QM, you should definitely enter!
I have not maintained a haiku practice, but contests are a great incentive to do so, and it’s far enough out as to make it workable in terms of creating a practice. I hope some of the fabulous haiku writers who come to red Ravine will consider entering, perhaps not even so much for the cash prize as for the challenge.
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Thanks, ybonesy. I’m actually thinking about it. Have to look back through some spring and summer haiku from last year. I hope others on red Ravine enter it as well. It’s a great opportunity. And I totally agree that deadlines help to create great incentive to keep the writing and practice on track.
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