Aug 18
Homecoming
one falling red leaf
the road bends to head southward
I arrive back home
Pamela Olson, 8/18/08
A haiku for the prompt
‘homecoming’
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Pam,
Thanks for this wonderful haiku. You illustrate time on the road home so beautifully here.
simple and elegant
nice images.
Excellent Pam and a perfect photo to accompany your touching words. G
That is lovely, Pam. Do you love autumn?
A wonderful little ditty around a (falling) red leaf! And on the way home.
Adi is our sweetheart, thank you!
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This is lovely. There is something about the oncoming season of fall that makes us seek that sheltered home.
lovely.
i like how the image of the lone red leaf is so striking, and evokes a sense of being alone and disconnected, which is then helped by the sense that one is nearing home.
This is such a centering post. Very nice, thank you.
The haiku paints such a nice picture. Sounds like a good journey to me.
nice!
nicely done
very nice and simple, like great haikus… (and great picture too, did it inspire the haiku or the haiku prompted the picture?)
Thank you all for the nice comments. Autumn is my favorite time of year and there is something about the change in weather and the falling leaves that makes me aware of all I should be grateful for — including home. The haiku was the inspiration for the photo.
“time on the road home”_thank u for a beautiful post..
really like the photo too, the angle and bright fall color of the leaf… yes, a simple, beautiful ku!!!
simply elegant!
perfect in its autumnal simplicity!
The leaf has left home, and your returning-I like it!
Thank You for sharing the poem and photo.
Spectacular photo and words -
I loved this!
poem almost works. too many premodifiers in the first line. either ‘red’ or ‘falling’ – ‘a’ instead of ‘one’. the photograph is of a fallen leaf on train tracks? i’d take out ‘to head’ in the second line. the final line is flat and banal.
hope this helps
David