Poetry of Motion...was Re: [at-l] [cubicle horror] REENTRY JOURNAL

[The Lehmkuhl Family" <lehmkuhl@gte.net (The Lehmkuhl Family)]

my contribution.

September's harvest moon
hangs full-bellied inches from
the horizon - how?

Riding ever higher,
tinted blood red to golden,
it's splendor boldly evident

'Til at it's zenith,
brilliant white, moon speaks to us
of coming frost.

not exactly a hiaku, :)
vera
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Mayer" <jmayer@rochester.rr.com>
To: "Sloetoe" <sloetoe@yahoo.com>; "kahley" <kahley7@ptd.net>;
<at-l@backcountry.net>
Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2001 6:49 PM
Subject: Re: Poetry of Motion...was Re: [at-l] [cubicle horror] REENTRY
JOURNAL


> Many little steps
> When strung from spring to autumn
> Fly across mountains
>
> -- Jim
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Sloetoe" <sloetoe@yahoo.com>
> To: "kahley" <kahley7@ptd.net>; "Sloetoe" <sloetoe@yahoo.com>;
> <at-l@backcountry.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2001 6:04 PM
> Subject: Re: Poetry of Motion...was Re: [at-l] [cubicle horror] REENTRY
> JOURNAL
>
>
> >
> > --- kahley <kahley7@ptd.net> wrote:
> > > At 07:23 AM 9/5/01 -0700, Sloetoe wrote:
> > > >### I've always been partial to
> > > >
> > > >It's moving your tail
> > > >That gets you up the trail
> > > >And nothing else.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >(Technically, it's a 5-6-4, not a 5-7-5, but I'm more than zen enough
> > > to forgive myself.)
> > >
> > > Didn't have to be Hiaku anyway Toey. Mine sure wasn't <g>
> > ### Yeah, but you see, with enough attention (and a day to think about
> > it), I can work out:
> >
> > It's moving your tail               (5)
> > That will get you up the trail      (7)
> > Relentless forward motion.          (7)
> >
> > Dang!! And it misses the "...nothing else" part that really drives the
> > whole thing home. Dang. (But I always thought "Relentless Forward
Motion"
> > would make a greatly evocative trail name...)
> >
> > Ah, well. It's a tradition thing. I'm big on tradition. (I'm big on
going
> > against convention, too -- whassat say?)
> >
> > Sloetoe
> >
> >
>
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