The Lighter Side of JzB

Here you will find photos, poetry, and possibly some light-hearted foolishness. For the Heavier Side
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Every day visits*
From Moose, Goose, and Orb Weaver
All seized by Haiku


"Why moose and goose?" you may ask. Back on 2/04/13 Pirate wrote a haiku with an elk in it, and I responded with
one with a moose and then included him every day. A few days later in comments Mystic asked "Where's the goose?"
So I started including her with this post on 2/07. A week later on the 14th, Mark Readfern
asked for and received a spider. The rest is history.

*Well, most days, anyway. Grant me a bit of poetic license.

Thursday, March 14, 2013

Carpe Diem #145, Nehane (Nirvana Ceremony, Buddha's Nirvana anniversary)

One of my most favorite creatures is the monarch butterfly.  On this day of Nehane I find this innocent haiku by Kakimoto now to be steeped in bitter irony.

on the human body
butterflies are assembling -
Nirvana Festival

And this one by Narayanan Raghunathan now just seems sad.

Nirvana Ceremony -
a butterfly buddha flutters
among human buddhas


This morning my lovely wife alerted me to this article about the strange, precipitous and tragic decline in the monarch butterfly population, down 59% from last year and over 90% from 1997.  We will do our small part by planting a butterfly garden, and specifically including milkweed, the major food source for the monarch butterfly.


~ 1 ~

within the shrine's fence
what a sad surprise to find
a single monarch


~ 2 ~

monarchs suddenly
multiplied by fifteenfold
nirvana


~ 3 ~

nirvana awaits
the passing of the monarchs
old man plants milkweed


~ 4 ~

moose and goose
foraging for other forbs
milkweed for monarchs


~ 5 ~

orb weaver migrates
leaves milkweed for the monarchs
buddha smiles


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Carpe Diem #145

9 comments:

  1. Oh your first haiku makes me weep for our doomed planet! Perhaps if I plant more milkweed.....and you do.....and he does.........and she does....... we can save the butterflies......and the planet!

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  2. Very concerned haiku ~ glad you are planting milkweed ~ will see what I can do ~ take care of monarchs and moose and goose ~ you are doing very creative and fun poetry ~ thanx ^_^

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  3. you planted lovely thoughts with this great haiku set

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  4. The benign Buddha smiling on Spider fills my heart with joy!

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  5. That first one is just wonderful. So many ways to red it.
    Bjorn's haiku had a mountain crying milk the other day and now your's weed it :)

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  6. this set was really great! I esppecially liked the first ine!

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  7. What a nice set of Haiku.. a good garden is never complete without butterflies

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  8. I love Monarchs and also have butterfly garden. Your haiku today are all so lovely intertwining Buddha, nirvhanna and monarchs.

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  9. aloha JzB. yeah, it looks to me like you have a line on fragment and phrase in these. i like #2. the last line has some of that surprise element to it. cool. aloha.

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