Keeping your distance
A brief touch of the elbows
A covid welcome.
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Author:
Michael Edwards (
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Keeping your distance
A brief touch of the elbows
A covid welcome.
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It is so sad that touching is not allowed, even a simple handshake is missed by me.
Ah, back to the artwork I know and love.
Andy
Thanks Andy - this painting is of Bradgate Park in Leicestershire - done as a commission for a dentists practice.
Good write and pic M.
Miss B do fist-bumps?!
She does bum bumps
Has she thunder thighs?!
indeed, an insightful write Michael,
personally, I think I have perfected the best system for receiving package deliveries:
throw down the rope from my ground floor window and wave 'warmly' with my full hazmat suit zipped-up tight,
then put on my oven mitts, spray it all with 99% killing antibacterial acid, hoping all the time that 1%: doesn't get me at night...
'oh those horror few seconds - we brave, between a cough and our thermometer results of fate...' lol
(ignore me, I was just having a little fun in my scribbled reply my friend)
You could use a long handled snow shovel and marigolds.🤨🤨
Good write and fine water color.
Thank you Jerry
A facemasked greeting
conceals a smile or grimace
secrets of lockdown
Being stuck indoors seems more like lock-up to me.
I fear not masking the grin this read left as I tried that elbow-touch and missed my distance - - .great artwork again Michael.
Bless you Fay - thank you - keep smiling.
Let's hope that, with the coming of the vaccine, that Covid (should be capitalized) will become the kigo (season-word) of this haiku. A colon mark after elbows would represent the kireji.
As I've written it I don't agree that the common noun covid should be capitalised nor would I want to use a colon - each line is a seperate statement in its own right hence the capitals at the start of each line which is, to my mind, more elegant and is the format I prefer - that's why I never classify my 575s as haiku.
To me the joy of poetry is to write something which reads well. I find if I try to observe the strict dictat of the Japanese forms I find they don't translate well into the English language.
With my background, you'll understand why I do biological nomenclature "by the book". The name Covid-19 is the WHO name for the disease.
I like the colon in a haiku as a substitute for the kireji ("cut-word"). I rarely write haiku, but when I do I call them haiku and try to follow the Japanese rules. But I'm used to engaging poetry in foreign languages - right now I'm learning to read Paul Celan in German, a language I read well.
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