Sea Anything? *(Haiku)

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Barbary Chaapel Aug 5, 2007, 8:19pm EDT

Atticus,

This is a wonder to think about: ice and blue, words, imagined...skybergs.

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Anne B. Grote Aug 5, 2007, 8:27pm EDT

This haiku has such meaning about the importance of words - our greatest symbol.

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Atticus *. Aug 5, 2007, 10:23pm EDT

Andrea, you are fast becoming one of my favorite people. I like what is under a poem as much as the poem. I think you do too.

Barbary, it is always a great thrill for me when I see that you enjoy one of my pieces.

Thank you very much Saturina.

LyNX, Thanks for your kind words. Thanks for connecting!

Anne, Thanks for taking the time to see though this haiku. I am grateful for your praise.

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amanda wallin Aug 6, 2007, 10:34am EDT

Wow! There's a connection between our imaginations to all of the cosmos and when verse is frozen in time, it melds the "sea to the sky".
Outstanding image in such succinct verse Atticus. I'm blown away!

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Atticus *. Aug 7, 2007, 8:40pm EDT

Such great comments!

Thank you ^Karen^ and Marianne, I like your interpretations very much.

*denny* - thanks!

Thank you for the 10 Angela.

amanda, thanks so much. It is very nice to get a "Wow!" from you. -Thanks for seeing the broad brush strokes. You always do.

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John Harris Beck Aug 8, 2007, 3:18pm EDT

I don't warm easily to haiku, but your vortex of icebergs pulls me in!

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Diana Raabe Aug 10, 2007, 8:04pm EDT

There's something brilliant about this, Atticus. Great haiku.

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Atticus *. Aug 13, 2007, 12:34am EDT

John, Thank you so much. I am cognizant of the fact that you and I have a slightly different relationship with words, therefore I am truly pleased that you appreciate my poem.

Diana, Thanks!

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Tom C. Aug 23, 2007, 10:16pm EDT

Atticus - This is beautifully expressed. For me I hear how words, as grand as they may be, are simply one configuration of consciousness, floating amongst and between all the others, and by their commonality are tied together from heaven to earth.

But, either way, beautifully expressed. :-)

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Atticus *. Aug 23, 2007, 10:37pm EDT

Bingo Tom! Thanks so much. Words also like icebergs are 90 percent unseen. I like to meld things together. It is interesting to me, particularly in poetry, when words cross the boundary between vehicle of expression and experience of consciousness. Everyone uses the same words and they more or less mean the same thing when we use them but each carries something of the user with them. My experience of the word iceberg is not your experience of iceberg but we both know what we are talking about. It is the conjunction of words and, I believe, a little more that can wring out a little bit of you and a little bit of me and connect us in unexpected ways. Sounds obvious but then again, there is mystery in the obvious too.

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