Three for Wednesday

Words do not fail me,
but sometimes emotion does—
wilderness of soul.

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Choruses of birds—
I falter at their singing
each redundant note.

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Three writhing green snakes—
in reaching out to touch one,
my fingers tremble.

© 2012 by Magical Mystical Teacher

More Three Word Wednesday: “Emotion, Falter, Touch”

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Posted on August 1, 2012, in haiku, senryu, Three Word Wednesday. Bookmark the permalink. 6 Comments.

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Vaishali Jain | August 2, 2012 at 12:24 am

MMT, every time I read your work, I feel at a loss of words. Each haiku is a treat to read. Keep writing!

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Green Speck | August 2, 2012 at 3:04 am

Lovely … your words are too mesmerizing

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4joy | August 2, 2012 at 7:48 am

How do those perfect words flow out of you so readily? great set, but the first one – sometimes I don’t really know what I am feeling….

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- magicalmysticalteacher | August 2, 2012 at 7:54 am
  
  Thank you for letting these words touch you. They are far from perfect, and most of the time they don’t flow at all; I have to plead and beg and cajole them to come. But if they touch your heart or brush your soul or shake your mind into a new awareness, then all the effort was worth it.
  
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Mark M. Redfearn | August 2, 2012 at 8:52 pm

The wilderness you speak of in the first senryu is probably the most desolate of all…

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Sheilagh Lee | August 5, 2012 at 5:17 pm

lovely haikus all three

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