Monday, October 22, 2012

Sunflower

                                                                               Picture by Marcin Szala
Image Source: Wikimedia Commons through Creative Commons licence (here)

Image in likeness
Moves in tandem to the sun’s
Flower of reason

For posterity
Van Gogh’s great admiration
Enhanced in colors

Written for Chev’s CARPE DIEM #22 Haiku blog with prompt – sunflower- and Real Toad's Open Link Monday

17 comments:

  1. nice hank...i love sunflowers....so bright & pretty...they get my appreciation as well...

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  2. They surely enhance
    Leaving one in a trance
    As they shine bright
    Under the light

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  3. I loved the reference to Van Gogh ... a well penned haiku !!!

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  4. So much is said in such a short poem. I also liked the Van Gogh reference.

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  5. Lovely words, to accompany a beautiful flower. I so love sunflowers! They are so hopeful!

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  6. Wow! Hank this is a wonderful set of haiku. I love the way how you have Van Gogh connected with the Sunflowers. Thank you for sharing on Carpe Diem.

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  7. This is a lovely tribute to the sunflower!

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  8. I like every one of Van Gogh's paintings. He probably is my favorie artist. You did it well, Hank, painting it with your words in six lines.
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  9. Hi Hank
    This is lovely. You are so good at haiku.
    —Kay

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  10. I like the moving in tandem with the sun ~

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  11. Hank I love this!
    I love sunflowers and Van Gogh...
    Amazing!!!

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  12. A pair of lovely haiku.
    I like your flower of reason.
    About Van Gogh, I must say I don't like his sunflowers, any of them; they are dull.

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  13. Great haiku, tandem to the sun's is very original.

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  14. ...for posterity. That is so true as I rarely look at a sunflower without thinking "Van Gogh"

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  15. Sunflowers and Van Gogh...love your reference in this piece. Great Haiku

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