Haiku- The swing
Red fallen blossoms
Adorn the abandoned swing
Lost playground of hope
Image thanks to : flickr Tatters
Being Alive!
With great trepidation I'm taking part in the daily Haiku challenge posted on Carpe Diem Haiku Kai . The challenge is to distill this wonderful poem into a Haiku. In this CD Tokubetsudesu episode Paloma wants to challenge you all to distill haiku from a poem by N.Scott Momaday. Credits: N. Scott Momaday (1934 -) Navarre Scott Momaday (born February 27, 1934) — known as N. Scott Momaday — is a Native American author of Kiowa descent. His work “House Made of Dawn” was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1969. Momaday received the National Medal of Arts in 2007 for his work that celebrated and preserved Native American oral and art tradition. He holds 20 honorary degrees from colleges and universities, and is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Momaday is considered the founding author in what critic Kenneth Lincoln has termed the Native American Renaissance. “House Made of Dawn” is considered a classic in Native American Literature. (Mo...
This speaks of lost childhood too.
ReplyDeleteHi Bekkie, welcome here. Thanks for visiting. Yes it does in a way :)
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