Open Poetry #12 |
Zoo-ku, a repost |
Beki Senior Member
since 1999-09-15
Posts 1569Newport Beach, CA, USA |
Down shaded pathways in the cool of the day a peahen struts. Barnyard animals laze in afternoon quiet; suddenly...childsqueal! Here in the zoo no animal beckons me - I am drawn to water. Monkey habitat rush of the waterfall- I see only ducks. Looking for birdlife in their lush sanctuary, mouse crosses my path. My eyes following I see flashes of color - Roseate spoonbill. Bright wind and water sing through eucalyptus trees - above their song, cockcrow. Enclosed together the llama and the emu, one stalks the fenceline. That bewildered cock keeps on heralding morning - it is long past three! QUick monkey chatter wafts on a breeze through the park - overhead, a jet. I find the monkeys away from their habitat - they smile from cages. Children seem taken with this white handed gibbon - he chatters back. Here on this parkbench surrounded by zoosong I still hear the sea. |
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ethome Member Patricius
since 2000-05-14
Posts 11858New Brunswick Canada |
Well done Beki! I have never written in that style but I admire those that do it so well! The poet is like a cocoon; in him the caterpillar of the past finds rest, and from him the butterfly of the future emerges. |
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Poet deVine
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Member Seraphic
since 1999-05-26
Posts 22612Hurricane Alley |
Beki, your poetry is always so well done. I really enjoyed this one. |
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Beki Senior Member
since 1999-09-15
Posts 1569Newport Beach, CA, USA |
Thank you very much ethome and devine |
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Beki Senior Member
since 1999-09-15
Posts 1569Newport Beach, CA, USA |
how come these did not move up after I posted? weird...trying again |
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suthern
since 1999-07-29
Posts 20723Louisiana |
Drawn to water and hearing the sea over the zoo cacophony... I like this very much, Beki! |
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Beki Senior Member
since 1999-09-15
Posts 1569Newport Beach, CA, USA |
Thanks a bunch suthern, I spent 4 hours at the zoo and thouroughly enoyed writing this actually I had some 30 haikus and pared it down to these as the best. |
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