“With a twitching nose
A dog reads a telegram
On a wet tree trunk.”
This haiku written by Richard Wright has a playful side. It simply tells the story of how one dog is “reading” a “telegram” from another dog. It describes the scene and still manages to follow the 5-7-5 rule!!!
“From these warm spring days,
I can still see her sad face
In its last autumn.”
Richard Wright wrote this poem when a woman he knew was about to die. He remembers her “sad face” from “these warm spring days” in the autumn that she is about to die or “its last autumn.
2007-03-21
12:55:12
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2007-03-21
13:00:12 ·
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