Friday, July 23, 2010

Haiku My Heart, Perspective



When this shot was made
I despaired, thinking only
That I looked so old



It is Haiku My Heart Friday again and here you have mine. Go to Rebecca's place to find more. And please- join us! Haiku makes you slow down and tease out the sweetest meat of the fruit of your thoughts.
Never a bad thing.

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22 comments:

  1. All This Trouble...July 23, 2010 at 10:08 AM

    I think you look 40 in that photo!

    Love the haiku, though. Love it.

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  2. DelphyneJuly 23, 2010 at 10:08 AM

    Fabulous foto! And just as fabulous haiku...

    Old is a state of mind.

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  3. rebeccaJuly 23, 2010 at 10:16 AM

    it's not hard to see you at 16,
    looking at you here....
    in this softening light.
    golden.
    you.
    your
    words.
    this skimming down...

    you move me...and take me places i long to go...

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  4. UnknownJuly 23, 2010 at 10:53 AM

    okay,
    you're gorgeous,

    and I love the way you took that photo.

    and yes,
    isn't that poem by Lucille Clifton just wonderful..

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  5. ElizabethJuly 23, 2010 at 11:11 AM

    very cool photo -- your arms are buff and radiant -- and the haiku is terrific

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  6. SydJuly 23, 2010 at 11:35 AM

    Nice photo.

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  7. BethanyJuly 23, 2010 at 11:38 AM

    wow, really? I at first thought it was May!

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  8. Sarcastic BastardJuly 23, 2010 at 11:46 AM

    I did, too. Thought you were May at first, I mean.

    Stop being so hard on yourself, goddammit. I love the photo.

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  9. AbiJuly 23, 2010 at 11:46 AM

    Just a teen. Great Haiku. Unique.

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  10. RebeccaJuly 23, 2010 at 11:55 AM

    Actually that's a really nice photo. When was it taken?

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  11. LoisJuly 23, 2010 at 12:32 PM

    Love the Haiku and you look FABULOUS in that picture! I mean it.

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  12. Ms. MoonJuly 23, 2010 at 12:41 PM

    Ms. Trouble- It was pretty dark.

    Delphyne- Which makes me a hundred and two.

    rebecca- Looking back, I think I might have been a goddess at sixteen. Ah lah.

    deb- Yes! What a wonderful poem!

    Elizabeth- How did I slip so badly in the past few years? Dang!

    Syd- Thanks, sweet man.

    Bethany- Yep. Dark.

    Ms. Bastard-Beloved- I like it now too.
    Because now I'm old.

    Abi- A teen in the sense of about-to-be-very-old?

    Rebecca- Probably about two years ago.

    Lois- Well. Again. The light was very low.

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  13. UmaJuly 23, 2010 at 2:31 PM

    Nice haiku, you look good in the photo:)

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  14. AJuly 23, 2010 at 3:36 PM

    If that's really what old
    Looks like then what old looks like
    Looks pretty damn fine

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  15. turquoise croJuly 23, 2010 at 4:07 PM

    O! Poopy! I can't think of that saying, o here it is, "Do not regret growing older. It is a privilege denied to many." YOU look SWEET and like YOU are daydreaming!in your pic!

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  16. paper-n-soulJuly 23, 2010 at 5:38 PM

    A lovely photo... and your words touch a secret place in all of us. But – you look great! :)

    ~Deb

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  17. Lisa Page RosenbergJuly 23, 2010 at 7:20 PM

    Pretty and pretty, so pretty.

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  18. MeriJuly 23, 2010 at 10:32 PM

    Isn't it funny that we don't feel as old as our years tell us we are? And isn't it true that our years create a beautiful patina, because we're wise as well as beautiful?

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  19. SpadomanJuly 24, 2010 at 4:20 AM

    Stopped by to check out the Friday Haiku. I am not at all disappointed in the photograph or the words.

    Peace.

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  20. Steph(anie)July 24, 2010 at 5:13 PM

    If that's what old looks like, sign me up.

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  21. Magical Mystical TeacherJuly 26, 2010 at 10:15 PM

    She hopes for answers,
    but fears there are none—yet grace
    somehow sustains her.

    Cobblestone Haiku

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  22. Kim MailhotAugust 6, 2010 at 10:21 AM

    I thought you looked soft.

    Thank you for sharing bits of you.
    Happy Friday !

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