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children on the knoll . . .
the wafting smell of
orange peels
children on the knoll . . .
the wafting smell of
orange peels
photo credit: pixabay.com sparrows fly from scarecrow to scarecrow . . . — Sazanami This is a balanced haiku that weaves two sets of distinct elements into unison: the flora being the birds and the fauna being the scarecrows representing the presence or preexistence of plants, almost always maize or rice; the second set being the captured moments of restlessness displayed by the spiral and nearly stringy movements of the sparrows on the one hand and the motionlessness of the scarecrows on the other hand. Scarecrows are objects of autumn and they manifest the depth of the season by their eventual poverty, weakness and decomposition. In substance, they are set up in the shape of human to scare birds away from a field where crops are growing. They are worn with human garments and caps or hats with their arms stretched into the air, as if ready to whip any intruder. Ironically, this verse provokes the reader to query if scarecrows really scare the birds. The answer i...
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