firelight flickers
casting warm and strange shadows
on sheltering walls.
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stone, adobe, logprotecting fragile humans
on the hearth within.
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safety of a wall
against his back, a hunter
waits for break of dawn.
©sgreerpitt
June 14, 2009
At first I thought about walls as barriers to be overcome, about the ways in which we wall ourselves off, and shut our selves down. I thought about the breaking down of walls. One of my favorite lines from American poetry is the first line of Frost's Mending Wall: "Something there is that doesn't love a wall..." But then I thought about why walls exist, about the purposes they serve, about the safety they provide humans from our earliest existence on this planet. I thought about warmth, comfort -- welcome walls.
12 comments:
Walls have many connotations. It is for us see which one. Like all the haiku.
filigreed walls
Sue, you broodly covered the bases in your discussion. Then you settled down on the good the walls can do for us personally.
I too like your haiku, I like the first the best. Most anytime we can have warm and firelight in the same breath our/my nature nods in agreement.
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Lovely haiku, each one painting a 'protective' picture.
Yes, walls have many uses and many intrusions upon the psyche - for good and bad.
I particularly like the last poem. There is something wonderful about a wall against your back.
Enjoyed your thoughts and poems on walls. Frost is a favorite of mine, and I love his lines about walls and fences, too.
Walls can be our friends, too. Thanks for sharing your perspective.
Each poem is a wonderful peak into walls in our lives~
A thoughtful look at the prompt - I enjoyed these.
I do like the way you took this prompt. The haiku verses are just lovely. I really nodded my head at these.
.. full of insight .nicely phrased ..
I am not a hunter but appreciate the safety of the wall.
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