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#Haiku: Snow on Desert
-By Linda Lee Lyberg
Desert sun melting
Hope springs forth from barren land
Parched land comes alive.
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Linda Lee Lyberg
My response to Carpe Diem #1299 Snow on the Desert
This month CDHK is all about the beauty of quatrains created by Omar Khayyam, a 12th century Persian poet, The Rubaiyat. Today’s episode is called ‘Snow on the Desert’, taken from Quatrain XVI.
The Worldly Hope men set their Hearts upon
Turns Ashes – or it prospers; and anon,
Like Snow upon the Desert’s dusty Face
Lighting a little Hour or two – is gone
© Omar Khayyam (Tr. FitzGerald)
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Reblogged this on davidbruceblog #2: davidbrucehaiku.
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Thank you for the reblog! Have a wonderful day.
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An awesome haiku in response on this quatrain. Well written.
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Many thanks!
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I thoroughly enjoy the image and haiku. For me your words light up the connection between snow and life/hope in the desert (not quite the same experience as here where I live, in a snow belt)
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Yes, Thank you! I have been blessed to see snow on cactus in life, and it is spectacular!
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