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Tuesday, 6 July 2010

rabbit haiku

sitting
by the roadkill -
young rabbit.



a scene from a road in the Scottish Highlands.

I'm delighted that Blithe Spirit, the Journal of the British Haiku Society has just accepted six of my haiku for their next issue! This is one they rejected!

13 comments:

  1. That is a very sad Haiku

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  2. Sad reality - excellent crafting!

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  3. Congrats on the accepted work and thanks for sharing this haiku. It reminds me a bit of one I wrote not long ago when thinking about our changing global environment and displaced animals / wildlife.

    an icy silence as
    brown bear departs …
    woods weeping

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  4. I think you should follow this up with a happy rabbit haiku. :-(

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  5. Hello

    O That Haiku is good and touching although it is very sad. Our Haiku Society would have chosen it!

    Congratulations on your accepted work!!

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  6. I liked it.
    And mega-congratulations!

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  7. I saw this on twitter and thought it was quite sad. But very poetic :)

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  8. They couldn't handle the depth of emotion that a rabbit has.....

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  9. Congratulations!

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  10. A whole story in so few highly emotional words. Excellent.

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  11. angie2:51 pm

    congratulations, Juliet! wonderful news.

    and I like the rejected haiku -- it's so evocative. makes me wonder if it was her mother; makes me wonder if you scooped her up and took her home.

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  12. a sad theme; a skillfully wrought haiku

    much love
    gillena

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  13. Lisa - it was very sad to see the bunny too

    Tumblewords - thanks

    Daisy - thanks for sharing your haiku, its very poignant

    bunnygirl - yes I should, I have written some happy bunny haiku in the past...

    sapphire, Titus, Paul, Roadbunner, Janice, Gillena - thanks!

    d.moll - too often bunnies are underestimated aren't they?

    angie - we wondered if the roadkill had been the baby rabbit's parent or sibling,

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