Sunday, February 12, 2006

goose haiku by Richard Wright

another installment in our Poetry for POAS Pursuers series. Enjoy.


Don't they make you sad,
Those wild geese winging southward,
O lonely scarecrow?


From the rainy dark
Comes faint white cries of wild geese,--
How lonely it is.


Crying out the end
Of a long summer's sun,--
Departing wild geese.


Departing wild geese
Are fanning the moon brighter
With their tireless wings.


While plucking the goose,
A feather flew wildly off
To look for snowflakes.


--from Richard Wright, Haiku: This Other World

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