Mizu No Oto - Every Image Has Its Haiku - Edition #35 (English)
Friends on Steemit:
I leave my entry for the Mizu No Oto -Each Image Has Su Haiku-, which @bananafish promotes in its 35th edition (English)
I leave my entry to this beautiful contest and invite you to read beautiful haikus.
[photo with kind permission of Tiziana Dan]
My exercise:
Present, past,
sacred, profane...
Human facts.
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Present, past,
Posted from my blog with SteemPress : https://becksbitcoin.com/2019/08/02/mizu-no-oto-every-image-has-its-haiku-edition-35-english-2/
sacred, profane...
Human facts.
Posted from my blog with SteemPress : https://becksbitcoin.com/2019/08/02/mizu-no-oto-every-image-has-its-haiku-edition-35-english-2/
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.
The contrasts are starkly evident in the photo and very real, but the human condition hasn't changed at all. Very nice!
Thank you for your appreciation @owasco. Photography shows me that the main characteristic of the human condition is the need to get together. It has always been like this: alone we are vulnerable.
From that point of view there is no contrast. people gather in churches, as they unite in a way of life.
I saw this photo differently. I saw first the yellow traffic lights, regularly spaced and hovering, as if watching and controlling. That element and all the concrete and glass seemed to me to be trying to snuff out most spirit. But a church is there, a church that has been there a very long time in fact. To me the church symbolizes the existence of spirit despite all the glass, concrete and metal trying to keep spirit and human growth to a minimum. I can see now that gathering inside the church is very important too.
You like the city and I like the woods. It's interesting how differently, and yet the same, we saw the photo.
Thanks for your haiku! Even the rhythms of human life are subject to the eternal mutility of sabi and mono no aware.
I agree with you, @bananafish, the cultural products of humanity become a subtle directivity that guides us without us being aware of it.