Wednesday, September 11, 2013

Wase - Early Rice

                                                                                 Attribution: IRRI Images
Image:  Ripening Mature Rice
Source: Wikimedia Commons (here)

Sunshine bright above
Innocence of wild sparrows
Eyeing early rice

Abundance to share
Staple food of human kind
Birds have first option

Scare-crow empowered
Padi stalks in danger zone
Locusts undeterred

Written for Chev's CARPE DIEM #295  -  early rice

13 comments:

  1. yeah i dont see a scarecrow messing with the locust at all....hey i like my rice...smiles.

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  2. Scarecrows aren't very scary though, but away the rice does grow

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  3. I hope that rice does grow, helped by the scarecrows or not!

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  4. I remember when the locusts descended upon the prairie in a Laura Ingalls Wilder book, they devoured EVERYTHING in site that was green and growing. was not a good year for the garden for them.

    I love rice in all its forms and glory, with savory, sour, salty or sweet -- yummy!

    We don't have so much rice-growing over here, corn and wheat mostly.

    happy day, my friend!!

    xoxoxo

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  5. ...i must confess, i am a rice person... i eat much of it than you can ever think of me... aww... & the fact really bloated my tummy so yes --- i always have to work out... gotta love some abs than fats... lol... smiles...

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  6. Lovely... the birds indeed have the first share. A very visual set.

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  7. Lovely poem. Rice is such an important food source for most of the earth. From birds to humans.

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  8. Yes, those beady-eyed sparrows are always on the lookout for rice!

    Cooking Early Rice

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  9. Locusts don't turn back for man or beast! "Undeterred" is the right word!

    Old Man and Rice

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  10. Great set. Sounds like quite a bit of competition to sample the harvest:)

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  11. with birds and locusts
    rice farmer better hurry
    to harvest first rice

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  12. I like this series of haiku Hank ... they are so like ... you. As I look back at our earlier months I see that all the contributors to Carpe Diem have managed their own style and that makes me happy.

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