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RE: Mizu No Oto - Every Image Has Its Haiku - Edition #35 (English)
I like the way you capture the contrast between the church and the street scene. I saw the church but could only hear the noise and feel the hustle of city life. You did well.
Thank you for your visit and your comment, @agmoore. I think my poem is very generalizable. Every present contains a past, in everything inhabits a feeling of the sacred, sometimes hidden like that church, sometimes more patent ... I love human products, that includes the hustle and bustle, in the hustle I love the way People work, come and go, as they look for their destiny. I like that and in cities there is a lot of that I like.
Yes. It is true. I went to college and worked in Manhattan for about six years. I did enjoy the bustle, the excitement, the sense of life and promise in all that activity. But, as I got older, the child in me seemed to reemerge. It didn't like the bustle anymore, the noise. It didn't like the crowding.
You know, we are conditioned very early to enjoy certain things. I think I will always be calmed by the sight of meadow, perhaps with a cow or dog wandering around.
Thank you for helping me to see what my bias blinded me to--humanity in its striving and complexity.
Have a wonderful day and good luck in the contest.