Sunday, September 14, 2008

One Single Impression: Seeds

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13 comments:

  1. Your poem reminds me of a moment some 35 years ago -- a conversation between a father intent on ridding his lawn of pesky dandelion weeds, and his two year old son bewitched by the beauty of "parachute flowers" blowing the seeds in all directions over the lawn in question.

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  2. This is a lovely haiku and photo, you've captured the rite of passage for this unloved beauty so well. I wish we could all agree that dandelions are a good thing to have covering the lawn, so we could stop poisoning our groundwater to get rid of them. I used to have them all over several of my pastures at my former country place. In early summer it was totally gold, then later it all turned silver. Then the wind would blow and all the little parachutes took off - amazing!

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  3. Wonderful poem. I love dandelions. My yard is happily awash in them and any number of other "weeds."

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  4. This is so lovely, both the haiku and the dandelion!

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  5. We used a similar photo but went different ways with it! I love making wishes on dandelions in the wind!

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  6. Your poem is so gentle but carries great weight. I love the concept of ballast during flight.

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  7. Like Pam, I am intruiged by your use of "ballast". This is something used to keep a vessel upright: to keep it from sinking. However, you have it gripping the future which seems, to me, to give it an element of "dead weight". So the ballast of your poem could be a double-edged sword.

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  8. With your words, the photo is almost an afterthought. You create a stunning image with your words only.

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  9. The photo and words are impressive, full of hope for the future.

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  10. I still have one yellow flower in the yard. Hope it's stars have time to fly away. Great photo and poem.

    Yes, I will check out the flickr site. I didn't know about it.

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  11. Nice work! Dandelions are far too fascinating to be destroyed!

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  12. Lovely. It puts me in mind of all the times in my youth when I used to lay back and enjoy the fluff of cottonwood fluff floating in the breeze.

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  13. "parachute flowers" 'blowing the seeds'_into the future-magic..thanks for sharing this..

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