Every Wednesday at 12noon Lovelorn Poets offers the Lunch-time Missed Connections Haiku Special. Well, for those of you on the east coast it’ll be lunch time. West-coasters will have haiku for breakfast. Maybe someone could try to condense what I just wrote into a haiku! Post a comment or email your ideas to saysomething@lovelornpoets.com.
Winter Tree (plus: a haiku)
Missed Connections in Manhattan
tree
love as alchemy:
lead heart. four drops, rosewater.
three drops, arsenic.
i speak to the barren tree
of winter, dirt-caked roots
to brittled bark to branches
starved and haggard, deathly
thin for poverty of light.
i speak to the winter
tree, bared now of winnowed leaves,
his figure stark against the
frigid sky to which his
branches reach. they reach despite
the dark, the night. i speak
to the tree, i say: endure
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Her Two Cents on Winter Tree (Plus: A Haiku)
This lovelorn Manhattanite (singular or plural) has been posting poem-haiku combinations to the Manhattan MC for some time – successfully giving the Brooklyn poet MCs a run for their money. NYC is the clear champion in the haiku department though – in the 50+ feeds I follow it is the only place where you can regularly find them. 🙂
Gentle Readers: In reading both the haiku and the poem (we’ll assume they were both written by the same person) which one resonates with you? Winter Tree, especially the final lines, “i speak to the tree, i say: endure” creates a wonderful image in my mind – and a message of hope and perseverance.
