Height of Haiku Challenge
Haiku Heights #78 ~ Feather
To hold a feather
Like touching a small spirit
Like a sign of life
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I love a sunburnt country / A land of sweeping plains / Of ragged mountain ranges / Of droughts and flooding rains / I love her far horizons / I love her jewel-sea / Her beauty and her terror / The wide brown land for me / ~ Dorothea Mackellar (1885-1968)
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- A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken. ~James Dent
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10 comments:
So very true, Indeed. Good read.
there is much symbolism in the feather, nice
Love your interpretation Gemma.. beautiful..
Like a sign of life - this gives so much hope.
Small spirit; I love that thought. Eagle feather is Great Spirit. Peace.
See much life in the picture and wonderfully alive!!
True this ~ Nice one ~
AMAZING IMAGERY.
CUTE WORDS.
Wonderful haiku--can definitely relate :)
Feathers as a sign of life...interesting, because if I'm holding the feather, it is divorced from its source of life...the bird!
Featherless Pomegranate
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