Friday, June 18, 2010

London Amsterdam Haikus

Haiku London

Rainy London Town

Surrealists at the Tate

Thames River Rainbow


Hello Pakistani Plates!

Thanks David and Jahlia

So long Fish & Chips


Haiku Amsterdam

Bicycles and boats

"Who wants to get a coffee?"

The night is still young

-Ryan


Church stairs spiral up

no where to be but right here

a three sixty view

-Liat & Ryan


Curtains closed in Otto's house

1944

Outside a bird builds a nest[1]

-Liat


Colors fill the mind

Empty onto the canvas

Why did you do that?

-Ryan



[1] We visited Anne Frank's hiding place made into a museum by Anne's father Otto. The Franks lived in hiding for years in the apartment above Otto's spice warehouse. Black curtains were kept shut all day "not even an inch". - A. Frank. In the morning she would go up to the attic and gaze out of a skylight at the sky and birds. Looking out of their tiny window with streets and canals busy down below we saw an egg sitting silently in a gutter.

Do you think I'm the first to put a footnote on a Haiku? There can't be that many out there....

2 comments:

  1. i stayed in a hotel right down the street from there, the pulitzer...you probably walked right by it.? there is an awesome farmers market on sat. near there i hope you got to. also a really good slow food resturant you should go to farther from there, but in amsterdam called Gartin ( i think).
    lots of love and love the haikus!
    xok

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  2. Haikus? How about a limerick...
    4 people along the canals
    Cobblestones, Pastries, and wow!
    Van Gogh laid on color, Rufus Wainwright - could he be duller?
    Bicycles, trams, no sacred cows.

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