courtesy of Fay Collins
Thanksgiving Day–
A murder of crows
Takes flight
My second haiku for EarthRise Haiku Collaborative 2018 from my haibun “Conflicted Expectations”,
Contemporary Haibun Online, October 2013; V. 8, N. 3
for dVerse Poets’ Tuesday Poetics–Fay Colins. Sarah’s inaugural pubtend!
Real Toads’ Tuesday Platform–April Style
#GloPoWriMo2018 / #NaPoWriMo2018 17/30
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Categories: haikai, haiku community
Those crows – they kill me! lol! Nice bit of imagery here.
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Thanks, Jilly! 😀
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Love the creative spin ~
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Thanks, Grace! 😀
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“Thanksgiving” and “Takes” seem to tie this together.
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I really love the way you capture the story outside the frame of the picture
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Thanks, Bjorn! 😀
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This haiku is like a tiny bomb – maybe not a bomb, actually, something more life-affirming – it just explodes an image for me, with sound and weather, and everything. Looking back at the picture, your haiku made that single autumn leaf glow.
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Thanks, Sarah! 😀
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Gives me the image of the sky darkening.. like an omen!
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Thanks!
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So well done. An image of what happened before.
Anna :o]
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Thanks, Anna!
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Oh dear, that sounds inauspicious.
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Indeed, Kerry! Thanks!
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I like!
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😀
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Excellent.
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Thanks! 😀
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I’ve used “murder of crows” a few times – love the words as they don’t mean what we might think.
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😀
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Thanks for the link! 🙂
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Cool take on this one, Frank.
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Thanks, Sarah! 😀
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