All people desire to be free. So do the smallest of creatures. A fly buzzing inside a house is just looking for a way out to be free again. When you think about it we are no different except we can get out if we really want to. This is freedom that goes far beyond the 4th of July. It's freedom that endures the test of time.
Fly buzzing around
He just wants out; wants freedom!
Sounds like you and me?
“So then, let us not be like others, who are asleep, but let us be alert and self-controlled” (1 Thessalonians 5:6).
Very interesting poem. To my recently accquired knowledge of Japanese poetry (wikipedia haha), this could qualify as both a haiku as well as a senryu. You see, it has an image of nature (haiku), but at the same time it portrays the imperfection of man (senryu), while a haiku, as I understood, reflects upon the perfection (in nature). Because the only image of nature portrayed here is the fly, and the imperfection is much more apparent, about the wanting freedom and all, I would judge this a senryu. In my most humble opinion ofcourse. Very nice and down-to-earth poem, I like it. Greetings, D.T.
You have a point...insects...too
serve a vital role in natures
balancing act...let them be free.
No...wouldn't harm a fly!
Thank you John Michael for sharing
your special words of wisdom.
Ha! Ha! Ha! I could not stop laughing at your response Ron. That is because in my teens and twenties I would have said the same thing! However, now I know even the absence of a bee can mess up our whole food chain and cause starvation in much of the world. There is a delicate balance in nature and if we don't respect it we will become victims of our own demise. Still, I loved your humor. I will leave it at that.
If I were a Buddhist, I'd give him some meat to draw blood on and lay his or her eggs on, to get maggots, then I let them feed, so I'd have a house full of flies that I would shoo out of an open window gently with a saffron orange cloth.
But I'm an ignorant atheist, so I just would swat the fly dead, sweep it up and deposit it in the trash, where all good varmints go after I kill them.
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Thank you for sharing,and continued success.
Barbara J. Henry
Happy true Independence.
sonya ki
Regis
serve a vital role in natures
balancing act...let them be free.
No...wouldn't harm a fly!
Thank you John Michael for sharing
your special words of wisdom.
Happy Fourth of July!
Kathy J Parenteau
Have a Happy 4th,
John
But I'm an ignorant atheist, so I just would swat the fly dead, sweep it up and deposit it in the trash, where all good varmints go after I kill them.
Ron
Love ya!
Jane