Forget law or politics, and even Halloween plans. Let’s spend a few quiet minutes
with the haiku of literary giant Richard Wright [author of Native Son and Black Boy]
I am nobody:
A red sinking autumn sun
Took my name away
This still afternoon
Is full of autumn sunlight
And spring memories.
If pumpkins could talk,
I am sure they would be
Reactionary!
A skinny scarecrow
And its skinnier shadow
Fleeing a cold moon.
from Haiku: This Other World (a collection of over 800 haiku,
published in 1998, almost 40 years after the author’s death). A great haiku introduction or gift.
- Before being distracted by Richard Wright, I had planned to feature
scarecrow haiku today. You can find some of my favorite Issa’s scarecrow
poems at his Tea Party in the Sidebar.
Find scarecrow haiku by many poets in The Scare Crow: A Collection of Haiku
& Senryu (Leroy Kanterman, Ed., Hiroake Sato, translator, Red Moon Press, 1999)
by dagosan:
candy for goblins
brought home too soon —
last-minute trip to buy more
[Oct. 28, 2004]
October 29, 2004
just Wright for an autumn day
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