I like the immediacy, the brightness, of this poem; Issa's imagery captures the sudden newness of New Year's morning.
Happy New Year, Jim -- and everyone. And thanks for all the poetry.
Posted by: Susan | Jan 1, 2013 11:08:15 AM
Thanks Susan, and to you.
Posted by: Jim | Jan 1, 2013 11:34:37 AM
Jim, this is the ideal length!!!! Thank you for all the poetry in 2012. I suspect I speak for many when I say it is sometimes the only poetry I read in a day. Thank Newton it's a well curated choice, or, when it's your own, a well written one. Dare we hope for 2013 to be as glorious? Yes, we dare...
I join Elatia in congratulating and thanking Jim for his superb curating of daily poems as well as his brilliant original contributions on Mondays. We are lucky to have you, Jim, and you should know that I continually get emails from people saying how much they appreciate the poetry and many come just for that every day.
"And the crows in the trees
Quark and quark and quark!" :-)
—and I appreciate the opportunity to post, as well as the incentive to search for and read more poetry than I ever have in my life.
Posted by: Jim | Jan 1, 2013 12:55:01 PM
This world--
call it an image
caught in a mirror--
real it is not,
not unreal either
---From Twentyfour Tanka by Minamoto No Sanetomo (1192-1219)
Translated by Hiraoki Sato and Burton Watson, The Country of Eight Islands
Posted by: waqnis | Jan 1, 2013 1:16:35 PM
Thanks Jim for the cotidian beauty your poems bring to our lives.
Happy New Year to you and the dedicated folks of 3QD.
To you the Irish blessing:
May the road rise to meet you. May the wind be always at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face, the rain fall soft upon your fields. And until we meet again, may God hold you in the palm of his hand.
Posted by: Félix E. F. Larocca, MD | Jan 1, 2013 5:06:59 PM
Despite, my habbit of rare comment, your briefest of all poems has inspired me to join Elatia and Abbas in expressing my own appreciation and gratitude for your daily poetic contributions! You do a brilliant job of it and this one is just fabulously evocative and meditative! Thank you.
Sughra
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Comments
And the geese on the pond
Honk and honk.
Posted by: olavi valo | Jan 1, 2013 9:31:22 AM
And the sunlight on the pond
Shines and shines.
Posted by: Larry | Jan 1, 2013 10:21:11 AM
There's a million of 'em. So what's the big deal?
Posted by: Jim | Jan 1, 2013 10:26:47 AM
I like the immediacy, the brightness, of this poem; Issa's imagery captures the sudden newness of New Year's morning.
Happy New Year, Jim -- and everyone. And thanks for all the poetry.
Posted by: Susan | Jan 1, 2013 11:08:15 AM
Thanks Susan, and to you.
Posted by: Jim | Jan 1, 2013 11:34:37 AM
Jim, this is the ideal length!!!! Thank you for all the poetry in 2012. I suspect I speak for many when I say it is sometimes the only poetry I read in a day. Thank Newton it's a well curated choice, or, when it's your own, a well written one. Dare we hope for 2013 to be as glorious? Yes, we dare...
Posted by: Elatia Harris | Jan 1, 2013 12:01:36 PM
I join Elatia in congratulating and thanking Jim for his superb curating of daily poems as well as his brilliant original contributions on Mondays. We are lucky to have you, Jim, and you should know that I continually get emails from people saying how much they appreciate the poetry and many come just for that every day.
"And the crows in the trees
Quark and quark and quark!" :-)
Posted by: S. Abbas Raza | Jan 1, 2013 12:35:48 PM
—and I appreciate the opportunity to post, as well as the incentive to search for and read more poetry than I ever have in my life.
Posted by: Jim | Jan 1, 2013 12:55:01 PM
This world--
call it an image
caught in a mirror--
real it is not,
not unreal either
---From Twentyfour Tanka by Minamoto No Sanetomo (1192-1219)
Translated by Hiraoki Sato and Burton Watson, The Country of Eight Islands
Posted by: waqnis | Jan 1, 2013 1:16:35 PM
Thanks Jim for the cotidian beauty your poems bring to our lives.
Happy New Year to you and the dedicated folks of 3QD.
To you the Irish blessing:
May the road rise to meet you. May the wind be always at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face, the rain fall soft upon your fields. And until we meet again, may God hold you in the palm of his hand.
Posted by: Félix E. F. Larocca, MD | Jan 1, 2013 5:06:59 PM
Despite, my habbit of rare comment, your briefest of all poems has inspired me to join Elatia and Abbas in expressing my own appreciation and gratitude for your daily poetic contributions! You do a brilliant job of it and this one is just fabulously evocative and meditative! Thank you.
Sughra
Posted by: Sughra | Jan 2, 2013 9:07:11 AM
That was to read: "Despite my habit ..."
Posted by: Sughra | Jan 2, 2013 9:08:21 AM
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