The Lighter Side of JzB

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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, February 5, 2015

Imaginary garden




muddy maumee river
remnant of the great black swamp
i was born along its bank
in a hospital long since abandoned

and grew up next to what
i was told was once the other bank
before it changed its course
as rivers sometimes do

that dry watercourse was a playground
its flat bottom held a football stadium
a running track and baseball diamonds
the trees on it’s sides a child's jungle

i can’t say now what formed in my mind
in those long ago formative years
what ideas flowed into me from that dry river
even today i never know what will flow out



13 comments:

  1. Makes me wonder how a birth place does affect us.

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    1. and i didn't even say anything about 12 years of catholic school

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  2. Oh I love that - the river - and never knowing what will flow out. Me, too!

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  3. I, too love the ideas of a river and all that flows. It is wondrous to think about how much our environment and roots affects our view on the world.
    Thank you, I enjoyed your poem.

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  4. Your river metaphor flows well

    Much love...

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  5. A riverbed is a wonderful way of beginning.. it has a flow yet not.. and it is a place of birth in itself I like how you started with the description of your birthplace fits in.

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  6. Okay, now I want to spin a poem about being born in an abandoned hospital. Meanwhile, what better place to grow up than with one's own jungle at hand?

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  7. "even today i never know what will flow out"... exactly, but I am grateful that poems are still birthed.

    https://georgeplaceblog.wordpress.com/2015/02/06/conception-of-creation/

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  8. As rivers, and lives, often do. Descriptive and full of a sense of both self and place.

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  9. The river and thought...perfect metaphors employed and a very visual piece...nicely crafted indeed...thank you!

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  10. love the comparison of this and the details are wonderful

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  11. Our birth place leaves an impression even if we don't understand its full impact...beautiful piece

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  12. Running rivers or dry river beds… they are magical. Maumee - love saying that word.

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