Haiku 456

Posted: under Alison's Haiku, Daily Haiku.
Tags: , , , April 1st, 2010

by Alison

by Alison

the fly I set free

in the morning is dead on

my doorstep by dusk



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  • 1

    excellent haiku!
    true spirit of traditional objective observation,
    yet suggests brevity of life.

    clap-clap-clap…bravo!

    Comment by johanna — April 1, 2010 @ 6:27 am

  • 2

    Sad, but at least it had some hours to live before its death, it is thankful to you for that. Buddha will be happy with your effort and Haiku.

    Comment by Chris — April 1, 2010 @ 7:13 am

  • 3

    I like this one a lot. It has a full circle feel to it, and speaks of the value of kindness even in the face of death. This is very nicely done.

    Comment by Kelly — April 1, 2010 @ 7:37 am

  • 4

    How’d you know? What’d you do, chip it?

    Comment by D. Gale — April 1, 2010 @ 10:01 am

  • 5

    Thank you, everyone.

    D. Gale - Poor little guy had hardly budged from where I left him on the porch. I expected him (or her?) to fly away and live a happy life but it wasn’t to be.

    Comment by Alison — April 2, 2010 @ 5:23 pm

  • 6

    I had a similar experience yesterday, I found a bug upside down and was trying hard to flip over but couldn’t. So I used a small twig and pushed it, it flew away :-)

    Comment by Chris — April 5, 2010 @ 7:01 am

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