Some of nature's smaller creatures sure have it tough!
Tiny blind creature
Hard life pushing through dense red clay
Determination.........
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Reviews of "The Mole (Haiku)"
Reviewed by Terri Tanner (Reader)
Reviewed on April 27, 2004
Thought this was going to be about a birthmark. Wondered how you were going to pull that one off!! I'm rooting for that little mole. Does he have a mole, by chance?
When I was a kid, my Grandma woke my Dad at 3am to tell him there was a mole in the toilet. It somehow dug into the line and swam up to the bathroom toilet. My Dad simply got up and flushed it back down. Can you imagine finding a mole in your toilet right before you sit down at 3 in the morning?
Reviewed by Kevin Mc Crum (Reader)
Reviewed on March 25, 2004
very nice write. I like the hidden meaning behind this...
Wonderful Haiku, Pamela. I am one who is fascinated by these tiny creatures. I watch them all the time poking up from the ground under my birdfeeder. Tiny, blind, yet filled with life!
I believe we could all learn alot from these creatures! We are too easily to give in..they never do!
You sure said alot in a very few words here Pamela! Lisa
Robin Ouzman Hislop's poetry is certainly in dialogue with some of the key architects of the 'poetics of indeterminacy' – both the Modernist strands represented by the likes of Beckett and Stein, and the postmodernist strands represented, initially,
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Nicely done.
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You sure said alot in a very few words here Pamela! Lisa