haiku shade tree.
by johnjohndoe (Member) - published: October 3, 2007
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I planted a tree
near the wall in the garden.
Shade is a resource.

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by johnjohndoe

Resourceful
Ah, shade. A plentiful resource and a renewable one at that.

Loved this, the direction it got my mind to wandering in, all with a mental background of gracefully sloped branches overhead.

Thank you for this temporary respite.

( Posted by: chinadoll [Member] On: October 4, 2007 )

Good questions, Francisco
But I can only answer one of them. ;)

It's not an inadequacy on your part. It's an over-exuberance to comment and make up for lost time on mine.

( Posted by: chinadoll [Member] On: October 4, 2007 )

jjd's tree
I saw this as a double source of shade: wall casts shade now, depending on sun's placement in sky, and later, when tree will have grown, it will cast shade too. When one source of shade becomes two sources of shade, then it's a resource. I'm warped, I know. (Don't call the authorities!)

But yes, there can never be too much shade...especially if and where a burning sun scorches all day.

Restorative, this. An oasis.

Thank you!

Lucie

( Posted by: windchime [Member] On: October 4, 2007 )

Shade
Shade is wonderful on a hot sunny day and I don't like to burst your bubble...but....Everytime I buy something , I always ask...How do you clean it? Now I ask you ...Who will rake the leaves? What a delightful read...Kacee

( Posted by: nitz kitty [Member] On: October 4, 2007 )

"Shade is a resource."
yes indeed! but for poets, isn't everything a resourse? I count three shades... wall shade, tree shade, poem shade... I think...

I liked this, a lot.

( Posted by: AuldMiseryGuts [Member] On: October 4, 2007 )

Broad leaves
Global environment being what it is, I read your poem and thought, how lucky he is. How lucky we all are. Tree, shade, garden, luxury of time for composing haiku. Fortunately, your poem is not careless, it is resource-aware and somehow prayerful.

( Posted by: MobiusSoul [Member] On: October 4, 2007 )

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