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Hello Alan,

Thanks for your response to my post on the subject of this thread.

Were I to visit real-life Wiltshire and there find a web in the environment, then, I would imagine the spider simply based on my discovery of the organized strands.  My conclusion may be in error for Wiltshire as for other habitats.

I relate 'real-life' to writing haiku. I am in active contact in my physical surroundings, immersed in the moment to take in something of the world. Real-life feels like the cold, it reflects the grain of some spiders' web as such.

Real-life is a thrill--it makes an impression on me. The thrill could be a fern seen 'just so' or a half lit dust mote. Some of this is new to me and I hope it never becomes mundane.

I am a novice. I want to learn. You input has been so helpful.

Reality, per se, is something distinctly beyond my intentions or scope of writing haiku. I think I would be taking on entirely too much for my poor services to writing poems.

Cordially,

Lemuel

QuoteIt can be difficult sometimes dangerous, to bring in any reality to our poetry.

I read nature journals, garden magazines, all sorts of nature and natural history (bugs, environments, botany, sciences), poetry and a variety of  newspapers. Real-life stuff mainly.

I get some inspiration from reading, however, I take haiku-walking in my green-zones including being stranded  by the side of the road or just waiting.

Active awareness of my situation works most of the time. Being there in the moment. Yeah, that.