Sherman Alexie - The words come from his poem The Powwow at the End of the World.
Circus of questions
Dancing shallows gathered feet
A cloud burst topples
Bright lightning bolts drop
Shoulder causes broken hoops
Broken storms forgive
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AUSTRALIA ~ The Antipodes
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)
Sunday, October 16, 2011
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12 comments:
Dorothea Mackellar (1885-1968) words are so descriptive of your region and your Haiku too does enough justice, all rolled into the thirteen wordle words!! Brilliantly done!!
It's more than the weather!
I like: "Broken storms forgive." And I think we also have to forgive them. Nicely wordled.
Wow- I'm impressed you could place all the words (not force) in this terse piece. Great work!
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It is nice to see you at the whirl, Gemma. Your first line is dynamite, and pulls me in to the piece. Each line can stand on its own. In its entirety it gets me craving the intensity of storms. Your piece reminds me that they cleanse.
smooth as water.
not the least sign that the words come from another source. wow.
Brief and concise. Not so easy to do.
circus of questions...love that...you pulled these words together with an amazing result...great job!
You compressed 'em, Gemma, compressed 'em into a teeny tiny comprehensible "ball" that bounces delightfully in the reader's mouth. How did you do that, anyway?:-)
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Gemma, amazing you fit all the words in such a concise piece, wow.
Pamela
Loved it!
hanging my head
Great going, working all 13 words into a two-verse haiku that makes sense and doesn't feel contrived. Wonderfully wordled! :)
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