And by the way, that wasn’t staged. It was just my mantel one winter morning. Gene
What wonderful comments! Thank you Eve, Jenny, Carmen, and Robert for the comments… and especially Merrill for contributing the poem!
it’s an amazing photo. the trophy-like implications of the towering shiny metal make it for me.
The photo is certainly a wordless haiku in its own right, and Merrill’s haiku-in-words is a perfect complement to it–but her haiku can also stand alone as a little gem of a poem pointing far beyond lady bugs to the general human predicament. Thanks for both.
The object on the mantle is shiny and imposing, but there is no life in it. Our eyes go to the lady bugs, especially the one toppled over. Like Merrill, we may be concerned about the bug because it is small, vulnerable and in need of help. This photo is a haiku in itself. One that pulls us in and reveals our compassion for the living or our lack of interest.
Why is there no haiku on this photo? It’s a great photo.
I absolutely love ladybugs – I actually wrote a sonnet about them. Thank you so much for this fabulous Haiku
How is it I feel the distress of the ladybug on its back?
And by the way, that wasn’t staged. It was just my mantel one winter morning.
Gene
What wonderful comments! Thank you Eve, Jenny, Carmen, and Robert for the comments… and especially Merrill for contributing the poem!
it’s an amazing photo.
the trophy-like implications of the towering shiny metal make it for me.
The photo is certainly a wordless haiku in its own right, and Merrill’s haiku-in-words is a perfect complement to it–but her haiku can also stand alone as a little gem of a poem pointing far beyond lady bugs to the general human predicament. Thanks for both.
The object on the mantle is shiny and imposing, but there is no life in it.
Our eyes go to the lady bugs, especially the one toppled over. Like Merrill,
we may be concerned about the bug because it is small, vulnerable and
in need of help. This photo is a haiku in itself. One that pulls us in and reveals
our compassion for the living or our lack of interest.
Why is there no haiku on this photo? It’s a great photo.
I absolutely love ladybugs – I actually wrote a sonnet about them. Thank you so much for this fabulous Haiku
How is it I feel the distress of the ladybug on its back?
upside down
no explaining the view
to my friend
Interesting photo. Merrill