01-12-2015, 02:15 PM
(01-04-2015, 04:29 PM)ambrosial revelation Wrote: I like these two ku in their observations and the fact that they are both addressed to 'miss sparrow' in a way that seems to be offering assistance but is at the same time not helpful, observing nature without interfering. I'm not sure if 'miss sparrow' is a representation of anything in particular, but I can read it straight as well as metaphorical.
Yes, I often wonder what is happening when a writer addresses someone other than the reader as a
writer IS addressing the reader. 'Miss sparrow' is a version of (and an homage) to Kobayashi Issa's
omnipresent cricket.
(01-04-2015, 04:29 PM)ambrosial revelation Wrote: I would usually wonder whether 'bush' is necessary... (in the poem that is) as azalea would be enough, but I understand why you have used it on this occasion.
While "azalea" would indeed be enough, I felt that an "azalea bush" seemed larger and
more appropriate for a cat to hide behind.
(01-04-2015, 04:29 PM)ambrosial revelation Wrote: I am constantly trying to outwit the neighbourhood cats in my garden, but because of their extra dimensional activities
"Extra dimensional" INDEED!
Cats are killers. I try to limit this killing by raising inside cats. My ally-cats, of course, remain blooded.
And, karma being what it will, are killed from time-to-time by dogs.
(01-04-2015, 06:38 PM)srijantje Wrote: specially the second one made me alert
Are you then the sparrow?
a brightly colored fungus that grows in bark inclusions