Comments on: So Trapped | Brain senryu poem example | 010609

By: jessica

jessica — Tue, 05 May 2009 02:13:09 +0000

dark as the sky is
you can always fill
the air with sower

By: Ken Wagner

Ken Wagner — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 01:21:05 +0000

Or – Trust your brain, but tie yourself to God first.

By: Borut

Borut — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 09:19:50 +0000

As to the usefulness of our brain or reasoning power, the last part of a saying attributed to Mohammed could be of some help: Trust in God, but tie your camel first. (A reply to a wild Bedouin, who, hearing for the first time Mohammed preach about God, would only trust, leaving it to God to do all the work)…

By: Ken Wagner

Ken Wagner — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 23:54:20 +0000

Is the brain a trap – or an unopened gift? I hope – the latter.

By: Borut

Borut — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 07:25:16 +0000

I am who I am:
However small you wet brain,
It is still a trap.

By: Ken Wagner

Ken Wagner — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 02:40:03 +0000

gautami tripathy - Thanks for the invite! I will check it out. It would be good to break out of my brain, if only on a Monday! Tikkis - Nice one! Reads equally well as haiku or a neurological complaint! Hard to achieve that mental feat.

By: Tikkis

Tikkis — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 21:09:49 +0000

Brain storm
whipping the waxing moon –
a wintry wind

By: gautami tripathy

gautami tripathy — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 12:52:42 +0000

Ken, If you like you can check out Poetry Train being run each Monday. It has no prompt as such but poetry is encouraged, haiku included. Do check it out. This would give you wider audience. There are others too. You can explore from my blogroll.

By: gautami tripathy

gautami tripathy — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 12:46:53 +0000

trapped out
in the wet-
out of my brain