Zen Anecdotes - seagulls effortlessly riding the storm backwards

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Zen Anecdotes

August 10, 2012 · Cape Town, South Africa

seagulls
effortlessly riding the storm
backwards
- mmcg

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• Mandeep Maan, Maxene A. Alexander, Dick Whyte and 8 others like this.
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  John Potts For outdoor types this is a very nice ku. It does the job like kung fu. ◠‿◠ That is to say with incisive elegance.
  
  I'm beginning to think that many haiku fans are indoor types. At least the onliners. This indoor audience will probably dig the apparent ambiguity. Maybe think in terms of 'art'; then pass on to the next and the next and the next... Ad infinitum.
  
  Not knowing if "stormy" is a winter kigo for South African haiku. I hope so. If not this is a fine nature short form poem. A classic (pop it in your possibles for the publication you plan to action?).
  
  Excellent (✓) not bad ( ) could do better ( ) don’t call us, we’ll call you ( )

  August 10, 2012 at 1:25pm · Like
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  Zen Anecdotes @John: Thank you!
  The Cape (Cape Town and peninsula) is known as The Cape of Storms in winter (and its now winter, clearly!). In summer it is called The Fairest Cape. Those seagulls have "got it" ... they don't migrate like the swallows, so there's something to be learned here from them.

  August 10, 2012 at 1:38pm · Like
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  John Potts This suggestion follows on from a previous discussion. Here's a prescript, short haibun, annotation option (call it what you like) for presentation porpoises:
  
  "The Cape (Cape Town and peninsula) is known as The Cape of Storms in winter . In summer it is called The Fairest Cape."
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  seagulls
  effortlessly riding the storm
  backwards
  
  Trouble is, that oblique linkage technique is MINE and may only be used under licence for an annual fee. (Email for details of current price packages.) ◠‿◠

  August 10, 2012 at 1:46pm · Like · 1
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  Dick Whyte This is a lovely poem Zen. Thankyou.

  August 10, 2012 at 1:48pm · Like · 1
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  Kame San Your haiku reminds me on my tanka I wrote last year in NYC:
  
  storm on the sea
  in the bay of Manhattan
  a seagull
  flies above the waves
  contrary to the wind
  ---Dimitar Anakiev

  August 10, 2012 at 2:47pm · Like · 1
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  Zen Anecdotes @Haha, John ... oblique linkage is something I used long before I'd read your writing! I'd probably not use anything in hard copy ... there will be no space bar or FB gremlins to necessitate it I like the suggestion, thank you.

  August 10, 2012 at 2:48pm · Like
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  Zen Anecdotes @Dick: Appreciate it, thank you.

  August 10, 2012 at 2:48pm · Like
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  Maxene A. Alexander Brillant!

  August 10, 2012 at 2:50pm · Like · 1
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  Zen Anecdotes @Kame San: Those seagulls are amazing, aren't they? Like reeds in the wind, they know how to bend; or they'll break. Seagulls are a common theme in my writing when I am in Cape Town ... a peninsula where the Indian and the Atlantic oceans meet. A nice tanka - thank you for sharing it here on this theme

  August 10, 2012 at 2:55pm · Like · 1