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faint sunlight

Gabriel Rosenstock, Gabriel Rosenstock poetry, Secular or Eclectic, Secular or Eclectic poetry,  poetry, [TRADITION SUB2] poetry, Primal/Tribal/Shamanic poetry by Gabriel Rosenstock
(1949 - ) Timeline

Original Language
English

Secular or Eclectic
Primal/Tribal/Shamanic : Celtic
Contemporary

faint sunlight
     injecting the veins
          of a falling leaf

 

 

-- from Haiku: The Gentle Art of Disappearing, by Gabriel Rosenstock

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Commentary by Ivan M. Granger

In its three lines, this haiku accomplishes what all haiku aspire to: It stuns you into silence. On the surface, it is a snapshot of an instant in nature, but the radiance of the sunlight transforming the leaf that has abandoned itself suggests so much more...

 

 


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