Photo by Joshua Earle on Unsplash
balanced on bamboo growth sown
in the breath of life.
This picture took me away to memories of bamboo rafting in the jungles of Thailand near to Chiang Mai. The sunset wasn't as impressive, but the picture really does reflect almost perfectly what it was like to drift down the river in the falling dusk with the cicada screaming and the sun streaming light onto the reflective surface of the water. I remember thinking that life can be like a journey on a raft at the time. This memory flowed into the Haiku I wrote, which I feel is a reflection on the great unknowable majesty of the universe. Do you ever get that feeling of looking out at at something of which you can't quite grasp the meaning? The whisper of a mystery, echoing through the cosmos. These are some of the insights that arose while writing the haiku in response to this image.
This is day twenty nine of my month long challenge - from the 06th of August until the 06th of September - to post a daily Haiku on steem. HF21/22 scuppered my plans for daily Haiku, so I'm a day behind and will put the final poem out on the 7th of September.
I have created a new tag #monthofhaiku. If anyone wants to replicate the challenge please feel free, I will check the tag occasionally and try to curate the better Haiku. However, this is not meant to be a challenge to the writers' community. I have been away in Yorkshire for the past two weeks with no access to a computer and limited internet. Please, forgive me if I've been slow to respond to comments, as I was only checking my phone (and partiko) occasionally while away.
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