Pesbo Pearl Pirie's Poetry Journal ([info]pearlformance) wrote,
@ 2008-04-23 12:21:00
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Color Your World
One Single Impression has the prompt of color. In consideration of this spring almost tanka:

dad's brown garden
still, the only green is
the plastic tomato stakes –
dad, my world's row marker
sleeps days indoors.



btw, it's Billy the Blogging poet's Poet Laureate of the Blogosphere election time. would you vote for rob mclennan? (listed as Rob McLennan, halfway down). Who does more for engaging and connecting the communities of poets thru his blog, and even posts occasional poems of his own...


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Colors of Life
(Anonymous)
2008-04-23 08:01 pm UTC (link)
This is an exquisite poem. Just exquisite.

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(Anonymous)
2008-04-23 08:03 pm UTC (link)
forgot to leave my name up above. Raven from Raven's Nest: http://ravensviews.blogspot.com/2008/04/one-single-impression-color.html

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[info]pearlformance
2008-04-24 03:35 pm UTC (link)
Thanks Raven.

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[info]gardenpath.wordpress.com
2008-04-23 09:52 pm UTC (link)
Good poem. I know lots of gardeners like this!

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One Single Impression: Colors
(Anonymous)
2008-04-24 09:03 am UTC (link)
My father was a gardener who now spends much of his time indoors. I can feel this one!
Sandy Carlson
Writing in Faith: Poems (http://slcpoems.blogspot.com)

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Re: One Single Impression: Colors
[info]pearlformance
2008-04-24 03:34 pm UTC (link)
Thanks Sandy.

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comment from watermaid
[info]watermaid.wordpress.com
2008-04-24 03:32 pm UTC (link)
'Dad, my world's row marker' sounds wistful'. Yours is the only haiku or tanka I've read where colour is absent.

Carole (watermaid)

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Re: comment from watermaid
[info]pearlformance
2008-04-24 03:33 pm UTC (link)
um, brown, green?

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Re: comment from watermaid
(Anonymous)
2008-04-24 03:53 pm UTC (link)
What I was trying to say was that most people have gone for vivid colour. Of course there are, as you say, two colours, but the display of colour everyone else has majored on, has yet to happen. It was the 'still the only green' that I was going on. This was meant as a compliment not a criticism - it's good to have a different angle - subdued colour. Hope that makes sense.

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Re: comment from watermaid
[info]pearlformance
2008-04-24 03:55 pm UTC (link)
ah, I see. yes, I get you now. Thanks for clarifying, Carole.

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tanka
(Anonymous)
2008-04-25 03:33 pm UTC (link)
This one speaks volumes in just a few lines. A whole story therein. Marvelous. Quietpaths.com

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color
(Anonymous)
2008-04-25 10:44 pm UTC (link)
..ur poem,along with the comments above are good reading.thanks for this and the visit.

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