March 19, 2007

Haiku - Breath

Babies in their cribs,
or a wind that scrubs the air –
all breath is music.


(Thanks to the women of One Deep Breath
for their continuing inspiration.)

(Inspiration comes
from the Latin spirare.
To breathe – to create.)

11 comments:

Bianca said...

How perfect your words, to breathe is to create. Great haiku!

Regina said...

"a wind that scrubs air..." that's a fascinating turn of phrase...
Just lovely! Love the piccie, too!

Anonymous said...

I love the picture, it makes your haiku sing. :)

Kimberley McGill said...

"a wind that scrubs air..." -- beautiful. May I share this with others - with credit of course.

Shelley said...

Thank you for your kind words, friends.

Kimberley, share away! (The easiest way to do this, I think, is to send the "permalink," which will bring people directly to this post (as opposed to the site in general, since my content changes fairly frequently).

The permalink for this post is http://butwait.blogspot.com/ 2007/03/haiku-breath.html (remove the space) and you can usually get that by clicking on the time-stamp at the bottom of any given post... the url that then appears in your browser window is the permalink. Apologies if this is all very old news to you; I am making some assumptions based on the relatively recent "born on" date of your blog, Tender Thistles, where I learned about Visual DNA today.

Tammy Brierly said...

Wind with a scrub sound was very cool! Very cute musician ;)

Stacy said...

Perfect.

And just look at those baby cheeks!

Anonymous said...

Wonderful poem, and what a cutie!

Julie said...

A very different take on the prompt--so refreshing :D

Andromeda Jazmon said...

I love this!

Marcia (MeeAugraphie) said...

"wind that scrubs the air" is wonderful. The photo is adorable.