As I Drive To Lexington With the Sun’s Heat Blasting the Car’s Windows I Notice To My Right
Under several trees’ shadow
a small herd of cattle lay
chewing cud, lazing.
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so many things good about this:
the contrast of title
with haiku & movement
with stillness & alliterative quality
We have a rule on road trips that if you see cows you have to say ” oh look , cows ”
Fun riding along with you this month.
Same here!
Nice! Where I come from you predict the weather from the cows’ positions. Cows lying down mean rain!!
I did not know this!
Interesting, The only problem is cows will lay under trees in a thunderstorm even with lightning striking. I knew a man who lost his small herd due to lightning.
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love the poem and the conversation.
in our family we always call Cows…and Baby Cows…even when alone!
Gorgeous word:
lazing.
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I love this – such a wonderful snapshot of a poem I can see in my mind’s eye.
Thanks. I like the visual and sensual.
They seem to have the right idea for this heat! Lazing is definitely called for.
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This is a perfect Kentucky snapshot of a haiku–I love it.
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Soothing, cooling. A lovely image of Kentucky!
We need all the cooling we can get!
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Love the contrast of the title’s length and the poem’s brevity, but the poem’s brevity in no way measures the breadth and breath of the haiku. That last line so satisfying.
Thanks, Karen.
Backstory in the title, and then the contrast in the haiku. It’s like looking out the window and transporting there
very nice
Thanks, Mike.
So, the Japanese would have nothint to be critical of with is one.