Feet pickled with damp
From the comforting ground mist;
Fiery thoughts still rage
This is today’s contribution to OctPoWriMo – a challenge to write a poem a day during October. You can sign up here, at any time during the month, or just check out the prompts and tips if you prefer – http://www.octpowrimo.com/
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Pickled toes running from woes. Love your haiku, Al.
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Thanks Olga… running from, or to? 🙂
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All in one’s perspective.
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This sings to me… Every morning out to chickens through wet grass or snows leave my feet pickled…
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Hopefully that helps to clear your head, rather giving you time to stew 🙂
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Ah, inspiring October… you deliver it in fine fashion
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By turns, inspiring hope… then fear… Halloween coming 🙂
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BOO!
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Nice blending of the wetness with fire. A story in there.
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Definitely… I like leaving the reader to fill in their own 🙂
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You convey such vivid images and emotions with so few words!
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Thank you… this started as a longer poem, but I thought I could distil it down into a haiku, and let the reader fill in the blanks 🙂
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Brilliant!
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Great poem and very visual!
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Thanks wd 🙂
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I can sympathize. I have felt this way before. Excellent poem, Al!! 🙂
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Thanks Cindy 🙂
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Love that first line….feet pickled with damp..
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Thanks jt 🙂
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Oohh, that’s a good one!!
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Thanks JL 🙂
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Most welcome! How did “reuse” day go?
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What’s “reuse day”?
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Please Forgive me!! My mind is slipping away more quickly than I realized–I was thinking of another person, Bastet, in Italy, who just participated in what they call “reuse” (recycle) day. Gosh, I feel like a right idiot now… 😦
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No need to apologise! Reuse day definitely should be a thing for poets. Get one of your earliest works out of the drawer, then re-work it / flip it around 🙂
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You’re a very kind gentleman 🙂 So…why don’t you start the Reuse a Post challenge, eh?? I’d go for it–have plenty to reuse 🙂 If you don’t have time, though–I might go ahead and start it, crediting you of course. Doesn’t matter, either way–you have a great idea, there!
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I love it! Watch this space for Nov… Have over-reached a bit for Oct already, and we haven’t even got to the Halloween challenges yet!
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Oh I know–I don’t do Halloween, but have had a poem start niggle-nagging in the back of my brain’s closet. Sounds Great–I’ll watch for Nov challenge–yaaaayyy!
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🙂
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So nicely done with the haiku form. To set in the first two lines the feelings of the serene connection to nature, while the last two line so perfectly expresses in spite of this we are still susceptible to allowing our inner rage to blind us to serenity around us,
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Thanks ET, I’m glad this came across – had a longer (non-haiku) version of this that expanded the imagery and made this clearer… less is sometimes more!
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Indeed. As someone who can go on and on both in my mind and on paper, I like the haiku tanka etc forms in part because they force me to say what I want to say with “less,” rather than a massive wave of “more.”
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