Small Vase
Username: "Small vase"
signifying my new start
fresh, sweet, delicate
plucking fresh new words
from an overgrown conscience
must contain myself
what can I offer
in my spiritual bouquet
my thoughts, hopes, dreams, prayers
blue forget-me-nots
fit in with the small bouquet
forget me not, too
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Inspired to re-join Poetry Soup today by reading this:
"In the wide garden,
I am dizzy with flowers.
I choose a small vase."
~Author's note by Andrew Clements
for his children's poetry picture book "Dogku"
He writes,
"That's what a haiku is like -- like a small vase, a small container. Choosing a small container can help you pick the perfect words and arrange them just right. And why did I write this picture book using haiku? Because a picture book is also a small container -- not many pages, not many words.
Adorable dog + haiku = Dogku.
Simple."
(Clements, Andrew. Dogku. Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers. New York, 2007).
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