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all ages, haiku, plants

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shiny red tulip
in the tired daffodils
my sweet lollipop

© 2011 Elizabeth Ehrenfest Steinglass, all rights reserved

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0 0 lsteinglass lsteinglass2011-11-07 14:57:002011-11-07 14:57:00Mine
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  1. Liz Steinglass
    Liz Steinglass says:
    November 7, 2011 at 3:06 pm

    I am still thinking about William Carlos Williams’ haiku:

    So different, this man
    And this woman:
    A stream flowing
    In a field

    I’m also thinking about this one by Ezra Pound:

    In a Station of the Metro

    The apparition of these faces in the crowd;
    Petals on a wet, black bough.

    I am thinking about what happens when two different images resonate. And, for an audience of kids.

  2. Caroline
    Caroline says:
    November 9, 2011 at 4:41 am

    I notice that these images are all exploring context, and they imply an interdependence…like when a child begins to differentiate, seeing himself or herself as both a separate individual and a member or extension of a family. How the parts create a whole, and how the whole defines the parts. Something like that?

    Do you think Carlos’ man is the stream and the woman a field?

  3. Liz Steinglass
    Liz Steinglass says:
    November 9, 2011 at 1:37 pm

    Hi Caroline. How exciting for me to have your comments! I hadn’t thought about it that way at all so now I’m happy to reconsider from a completely different point of view.

  4. Liz Steinglass
    Liz Steinglass says:
    November 11, 2011 at 4:44 pm

    If I think of the man as the stream and the woman as the field, which, now that you mention it, obviously seems the way to read it, I actually don’t like the poem as much. I had been reading it as a poem about marriage and was thinking of the man and woman together as the stream. I think my reading is incorrect but probably reflects well on my marriage. 🙂
    I think I’ll switch my allegiances to the Pound poem for now.

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