Gaia Haiku ~ A poem to my children on Mother's Day ~ May 9, 2010

my friend. Hope it's a good one for you! i like your comment about recycled life. thought of it often. a friend once asked me to tell her how to write a poem. i said that's a difficult request at best. i asked, "if you throw an egg against the wall, what do you see? a mess? an egg running down the wall? what of the egg's coming to existence and it's sacrifice? does the egg not feed other things even though it now seems to be wasted on the wall? in this manner the egg is constantly reborn. doesn't the egg also feed you, if only through your imagination?" she replied..." what the hell are you talking about? you're strange." i said, "yes. so are eggs. they're also pretty wonderful. maybe you should take up golf."

Beautiful and profound as always. *hugs, Cat

happy mothers day to you anna hugs judy xxx

Anna happy Mothers Day may you have peace and love! shirley harrison

As one of the earth's more beautiful, and contoversial mommys (gaia-an interesting hypothesis from scientists who can't figure out why exactly ice-skates slide on ice).But as the earth is the sustaining womb by which we are all interdependant let us love it, and each other, as we all make amends of our errant ways. The strawberries are your children. Happy mothers day my Anna of the bannanas B

Hope your having a happy mothers day ... love and biggest hugs Jayne-Chloe x x x ("Quote:-For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.-Ivan Panin")

this is beautiful! the haiku is an earthy one (pun intended) with universal meaning i'm not a great fan of haiku/senryu, but i so appreciate a well written one... and the rest of this write? well...it actually moved me visuals can move me easily (i can be a real sooky la la), but i find it hard to be moved, really moved, by the written word liking/appreciating etc, are very different from being moved the line, have i not denied you three times? immediately brought to mind Judas denying Jesus 3 times, after Jesus was arrested i don't thnk, or mean to imply that i found a religious undercurrent to this, because i didn't...it's just that that line struck me again, i find this beautiful your last stanza almost brought a lump to the throat so, so much contained within the lines of this write i've not read a great deal of you, but of what i have, this is close to my fav cheers p

Ann of Norway The religious connotations die hard and flavour our everyday thoughts almost unawares, and yet the analogy is so fine, and the fact that you are a mother I never doubted, as here is evidence of the great sense of love of the earth and all its inhabitants made into a metaphor for the intimacy of family, the family close by and then expanded out to the family of all peoples of the world, embraced in one poem and it is my Anna's, my sister's poem and I love her for it. Ann

I love this stanza. I don't know what it means to you, but it has a depth of meaning to me... how shall I make amends when the stream gurgles with laughter and the light chases the shadows away? PS. Is this a photo of yourself...it reminds me of some photos I still have of my mum and dad...it's lovely and brings tears to my eyes. Rosina xena465

Gaia, is the mother which gave birth to the heavens and all in it, including the titans and the gods. We've come to know her as mother earth; the sole inhabitor and possessor of the third ring.(three being another recurring important theme, as you once observed!) :) " I once walked a mile in your shoes and found myself with love." Anon. Is it odd that poets seem to spend a lot time writing in the third person about themselves meeting theirselves on a lonely road? Maybe. But this drama from a distance is fascinating to behold! Now.... where was I?