Haiku # 81 – Or can we do both?

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Haiku # 81 – Or can we do both?

May 21, 2015 by Betty Hayes Albright

Now is all we have.

Save it in a photograph

or engage the gods?

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on May 21, 2015 at 7:34 pm | Reply greatpoetrymhf

Reblogged this on Greatpoetrymhf's Weblog.

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- on May 21, 2015 at 7:37 pm | Reply Betty Hayes Albright
  
  Thank you! 🙂
  
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on May 21, 2015 at 9:59 pm | Reply kari'd away

Great question.

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- on May 22, 2015 at 11:15 am | Reply Betty Hayes Albright
  
  I’m ambiguous about the answer. 🙂 Thank you for commenting!
  
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on May 22, 2015 at 3:36 am | Reply joannagilmanhyde

The Past Is Part Of My Future, The Present Is Well Out Of Hand — Ian Curtis of Joy Division

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- on May 22, 2015 at 11:14 am | Reply Betty Hayes Albright
  
  Joanne, I like that quote! Reminds me of the title of a CD by Tycho: “Past is Prologue”. A phrase to ponder.
  
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on May 22, 2015 at 5:14 am | Reply silentlyheardonce

Great haiku.

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- on May 22, 2015 at 11:17 am | Reply Betty Hayes Albright
  
  Thank you – I’ve missed your poetry. (Am way behind on reading blogs – hoping to catch up someday.) Hope you’re doing well!
  
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on May 22, 2015 at 6:02 am | Reply willowdot21

exactly!

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- on May 22, 2015 at 11:17 am | Reply Betty Hayes Albright
  
  🙂
  
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on May 22, 2015 at 9:04 am | Reply slpmartin

Hmm…I was hoping we could do both…enjoyed your poem.

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- on May 22, 2015 at 11:25 am | Reply Betty Hayes Albright
  
  Thanks, Charlie. It is a loaded question.
  
  My son once went on a trip to another country and took so many videos and photos that he later realized he’d seen most of the scenery through a camera lens instead of just gazing and enjoying. I guess it’s all about balance. I can’t resist grabbing my camera at every opportunity (though I’ve no talent whatsoever in photography.)
  
  But your amazing gift (artistic, photographic, poetic) proves that we CAN do both. 🙂
  
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on May 22, 2015 at 8:52 pm | Reply Cynthia Jobin

How serendipitous! I just finished writing a poem today about this very topic. I’ve come to the place where I’m not ambivalent about it, anymore. I think you have one or the other, not both, in any given situation.

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- on May 23, 2015 at 1:55 pm | Reply Betty Hayes Albright
  
  Serendipity again – I’m starting to believe that resonate poets are joined in some Jungian collective unconscious, it happens so often on WP. Makes me smile. 🙂
  And I tend to agree with you. Both take concentration, but in different ways. We can do both but not at the same time.
  Thanks for being here, Cynthia.
  
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on June 3, 2015 at 8:07 am | Reply Ben Naga

THANK YOU BUT NO

By reputation
Gods are frequently fickle
The now is enough

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