autumn pond

Dave BontaNovember 2, 2021January 6, 2022forest, haiga, haiku, sky, water

a bottomless blue
six inches deep

[UPDATE] My friend David Groff suggested this translation (after a bit of discussion):

秋の池底のない青の六寸
aki no ike soko no nai ao no roku-sun

Published by Dave Bonta

I live in an Appalachian hollow in the Juniata watershed of central Pennsylvania, and spend a great deal of time walking in the woods. My books of poetry include FAILED STATE: HAIBUN, ICE MOUNTAIN: AN ELEGY, BREAKDOWN: BANJO POEMS, and ODES TO TOOLS. View all posts by Dave Bonta

2 Comments

mary says:

November 2, 2021 at 7:04 pm

beautiful! words and photo.

Reply
1. Dave Bonta says:
  
  November 2, 2021 at 7:17 pm
  
  Thanks!
  
  Reply

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Enter your comment here...

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

Email (required) (Address never made public)

Name (required)

Website

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out / Change )

You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out / Change )

You are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out / Change )

Cancel

Connecting to %s

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.