Last poem before I fall asleep. For Frank Tassone’s weekly haikai challenge.
birds flock flock flies all
in tune in wing together—
sky-full of beauty.
Haiku: equality
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Last poem before I fall asleep. For Frank Tassone’s weekly haikai challenge.
birds flock flock flies all
in tune in wing together—
sky-full of beauty.
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Thanks Willow. all for one, one for all…
Yes indeed 💜
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So amazing and beautiful
If birds can do it, why can’t we? Thank you!
Ah yes! Beautiful Jane.
Thanks Pat 🙂 The birds know things we don’t.
Definite shared equality here! Very nice! In tune… all like a giant symphony!
True equality, I think is when there is no distinction made between any of us. No discrimination positive or otherwise. ‘From each according to his ability’ is an excellent precept in my opinion.
I love those murmurations. Even pigeons look beautiful when they are swooping in unison from one side of the street to another. (K)
It’s as though they have a form of silent and instantaneous communication. They sheer to the right, then the left, wheel back, dip down, all together, without a fuss, without half of them refusing to take the same route as the others. We could learn a lot from them.
Yes we could. First we need to pay attention…
We could do almost anything if we put our collective minds to it, but we tend not to bother.
We are habitually lazy.
We are, when we are in the happy position of being comfortable.
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#Haiku Happenings #1 (1/20/19): Jane Dougherty’s latest haiku for my current #haikai challenge!
Thank you, Frank 🙂
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By the way, there is a persiflage to the statement “one for all, all for one”, because in Germany this often was missunderstood.
Here the song by German punk rock group Die Toten Hosen, “10 Kleine Jägermeister”.
The song meets your thoughts about the hunters, too. ***lol***
Best wishes, Michael
I’ll check the link. You’ve taught me a new word in English! I thought persiflage was only French. Now I’ll use it with impunity 🙂 Let’s see how my German shapes up. Does that mean, Ten Little Huntsmen by the Dead Trousers?
🙂 The word was also new to mee, too. It seems the Britains had stolen. ***lol*** Yes, you German is well. The lyrics counting down the huntsmen got lost during shooting. Its a metaphor to the politic business, too.
Persiflage goes on a lot in French politics. I bet there aren’t many British politicians who know that that’s what they are doing 🙂 I like the visuals in the clip. The singer reminds me a bit of Shane McGowan of the Pogues.
Lets hope. Yesterday i read on Stevie’s blog (steviet3.wordpress.com, in Britain they fear not to have enough medicaments after Brexit. What they are doing???? YES, the visuals are great. They comparing voices i have to look for. Shane McGowan is a new name to me.
Just look for the Pogues. Any song will do 🙂 The Brits have only got themselves to blame. It was a stupid thing to do but if they had another referendum, the polls say they’d still vote to leave.
I also think so. They will get back to here “Great Britain”.
If the six counties go, and Scotland, there won’t be much left 🙂
Surely, but you will see soon, the EU will get down, if our German candidate Manfred Weber (EVP) will become president of the commisson. The Bavarian officials have as former expelled from the former eastern german territories much hatress against the CZ and Poland. You will see, they all will leave t he EU till 2025. ;-(
You’d think that the Czechs and the Poles had rather more of a grievance against the Germans than the other way round!
They are just afraid, the German will make a visit with tanks, as in 1939 against Poland. But the new trick was to buy territories by the use of strawmen.
For intelligent, sophisticated people, German statesmen have problems with learning from their mistakes.
Since Wilhelm II. had to leave to Belgium, they had a change to learn. But they dont, and will not do. So in my view the actual actions against the German Automotive industry are powered by this.
Hmm. Getting their own back?
Oh yes, but this is over. I hope to remember to send you a letter by mail. This letter the Vatican got in March, 2017, and one German left the Vatican end of June, 2017.
We tend not to think of Germans in the Vatican at all. It’s such an Italian institution. But it’s politics, same as every where else.
So true! Vatican was and is only a political institution.
The most powerful force for conservatism in the world.
Yes, indeed. But not longer more in need.
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But the problem (for our Germans) was, Poland, the Czechs and a lot of other states more got notice about this “idea” in 2013. Just before Pope BXVI. left the Holy Seat. 🙂
Funny idea having a German pope. Very funny…
As Pope Francis think and thought. 🙂
Well, he’s certainly in the classic mould, Latin, smiling, benign… and completely conservative 🙂
Oh yes, he is, I would not buy a car from him. Lol But i think he is one part of the needful solution too.
You know more about it than I do. I tend to look at them all as a propping up a crumbling institution that has outlived its usefulness. Whatever that was…
Not as much, as i should.
I totally agree with you on that, Jane! Who needed the Catholic Church? 😉 The nobles to justify their power (Pope Gelasius I, Theory of the Two Swords). 😉 Were are the nobles now, better than ever? Germany, (Prussian Cultural Property), and Bavaria (Wittelsbacher – descendants of Ludwig II).
Princes of the Church. The place younger sons went to wield the same power as their older brothers. When did it pretend to be any different? Must have been reasonably recently.
Certainly, but France and other states had got rid of these old things. Germany unfortunately did not, despite the atrocities of war.
Is there no ongoing pedophilia investigation in the German Church? That tends to flush out the hypocrites and set people thinking more sensibly about the whole set up the Church.
The officials (church and state) are covering up. As things happened inside institutions like “Regensburger Domspatzen” we should also think on the Napola system of the Nazis. Anything is possible. ;-( Many former abused are in state offices too. Personally broken you can use them forever you want.
Lovely poem–and thanks for above comments for “persiflage.” I will have to remember that word. I could have fit it into my musings today. 😉
Thank you! It’s amazing what you can learn about the English language from a German 🙂
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Very nice, I love how you found the theme of equality within a flock of birds.
Thank you! Birds don’t pick and choose which of them are going to be ‘equal’ and which don’t qualify.