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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

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     a rustic rose
          the frantic bee disappears

 

 

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

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Themes

  Honey
  Rose
 
 
 


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Commentary by Ivan M. Granger

It's been too long since we last featured a haiku by the contemporary Irish poet Gabriel Rosenstock. I had planned to select a haiku of his on the moon -- in honor of this past weekend's full moon -- but this meditation on the bee's journey into the heart of the rose just grabbed me. Perhaps I'm getting impatient for warmer weather and the warm scent of roses.

I just love the layers of meaning we can read into these three lines. The more deeply we explore this haiku, the frantic mind, like the bee, disappears...

 

 


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