Haiku My Heart: for Adrienne Rich

Mar 30

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Poet Adrienne Rich died at her home in Santa Cruz, California on Tuesday, 27 March 2012. Each haiku or senryu below begins with a five-syllable phrase taken from poems in Rich’s book Midnight Salvage.
 
 

you get up and go
when the wild places call you—
the blankets are thin
 
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I wanted to go
where no one had gone before—
a door creaked open.
 
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drink from thick tumblers
oceans of sweet mango juice
tell me what happens
 
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Would it gladden you
to know that I have written
seven songs for you?
 
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All I wanted was
fragments of loaves and fishes
gathered from the feast.
 
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Are you so afraid
the mermaids cannot save you
that you shun the sea?


 
Text and photo (Northern Arizona) © 2012 by Magical Mystical Teacher
 
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Posted on March 30, 2012, in Adrienne Rich, Arizona, haiku, Haiku My Heart, Himmelsk, Northern Arizona, Sky Watch Friday. Bookmark the permalink. 6 Comments.

  2. Bruce Miller (Haiku Water) | March 30, 2012 at 8:01 am

    Magical seven, each starting with randomly chosen (yeah right) words and jumping off into oceans of spraying love foam. Oh yeah, I liked them 🙂

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  3. Karen | March 30, 2012 at 9:02 am

    A great tribute! They are all terrific, the second one resonates with me. ..step through the door.

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  4. Pat | March 30, 2012 at 3:16 pm

    I like the dead tree on the reddish earth with the cerulean blue sky above. Wonderful composition. Lovely haiku, too!

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  5. pritilisa | March 30, 2012 at 7:04 pm

    I hadn’t realized she passed. Adrienne Rich helped me through my teenage angst.
    A pure and thoughtful tribute. Thank you.
    And I am sure it would gladden her to know….
    ♥♥♥

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  6. Lea | March 30, 2012 at 9:40 pm

    Adrianne is singing with those mermaids… a feast here, these haiku…

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