Mary Lee Hahn’s #haikuforhealing project has grown on me, and I find myself composing haiku in my head as I’m driving, doing the dishes, or folding laundry. Yesterday as I headed out for one last round of Christmas shopping, flocks of geese flew overhead, inspiring today’s haiku.
patchwork clouds
stitched with vees of honking geese
hurrying homeward
© Catherine Flynn, 2016
Wishing you all the happiest of holidays and a new year filled with love and joy!
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Beautiful quilt-like moment. I miss the geese already.
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Perfect poem for a day to cuddle up with a warm quilt.
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Like you, I have found myself composing haiku throughout the day this month. Now I just need to carry a notebook, or remember them long enough to get them written down somewhere. I love your image of geese stitching the clouds together.
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Lovely moment, Catherine–yes to geese stitching the clouds, yes to hurrying homeward. Happy holidays to you, friend!
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You are in the swing of these haiku, Catherine.The geese stitching the clouds is a lovely image. And I really enjoyed many of your little offerings on Twitter as well. May you have a wonderful Christmas and a Happy New Year!
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A very happy holidays to you, too!! I was at a train station this morning, and let me tell you, there were a lot of people who were hurrying home, just like your geese!! 🙂
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Heading home feels so right. My children are heading home. I’ll be heading home to my parents this week. Home. Nice sound to that word.
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I love those geese stitching a sky quilt. I feel like we, too, are making something big and beautiful…with our little bits of haiku strung hither and yon like beads or tiny lights…
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Oh, yes….home is quilt stiched as we arrive. Wonderful sentiment. And, I find myself counting syllables in so many places these days. I love the project.Have a wonderful weekend. I hope your family is good to you.
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