![]() |
Poetry
Chaikhana
|
|
|
|
About Gabriel RosenstockTimeline (1949 - ) |
![]() |
|||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Original Language |
faint sunlight
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
faint sunlight
injecting the veins of a falling leaf -- from Haiku: The Art of Disappearing, by Gabriel Rosenstock (unpublished manuscript)
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||
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...
|
|
| Please support the Poetry Chaikhana, as well as the authors and publishers of sacred poetry, by purchasing some of the recommended books through the links on this site. Thank you! |
Ivan
M. Granger's original poetry, stories and commentaries are Copyright ©
2002 - 2008 by Ivan M. Granger.
All other material is copyrighted by the respective authors, translators and/or
publishers.