Here are my Haiku poems for Ronovan Writes Weekly Haiku Challenge 50.
The words provided were ‘gain’ and ‘hound’. My hounding brain, yielded forth some gain.
love hounds
lovers hound forever
pining love at all wrong places
gain, a wild-goose-chase
lust hounds
molesters hound forever
groping for petty physical gain
oh what sick life!
newshounds
newshounds sniff forever
hoping to gain a sassy story
beware! they may catch you
life is a hound
life hounds forever
for true happiness and joy
gain is a mirage
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Continuing this mood, here’s a very wise quote by English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834):
“Happiness is a hound dog in the sun. We are not here to be happy, but to experience great and wonderful things”
So we shouldn’t perpetually try to be happy but we should look for ‘great and wonderful things’.
But Coleridge also said: “The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions – the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.”
Which means we should hound to gain ‘little’, ‘great’, ‘wonderful’ things.
Now what are these ‘little’ things that are ‘great’ and ‘wonderful’, or ‘great’ and ‘wonderful’ things that are ‘little’ and yet ‘great’? Do you know?
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Copyright © 2015 Written by Alka Girdhar
What a great set of Haiku, and to find a quote with ‘hound’ in it too! Now that’s what I call clever!
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Thanks! 🙂 They were all in there and merely came out gushing, thanks to the magic of the provided twin words. That quote…I hope it makes it all more meaningful.
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It certainly does – a rich post indeed!
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Thanks again!
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Great set of haiku…. all of them are equally amazing…. 🙂
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Thanks Maniparna 🙂 Any appreciation means a lot to me.
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This is an excellent post. I like the variation of the word “hound” in each of your poems.
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Thanks Serins! After writing about these four ‘hounds’, many more came into my mind. But I stopped short 🙂
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Thanks Ron! You can pick and choose 🙂 The last one applies on pretty much everyone.
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Very powerful, nasally poignant ❤
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Thanks! Probably too grim. I realize I need to watch out the tone and moods portrayed in my writings.
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On the contrary, I think you should unleash without hesitation. Language is black, white and gray all at once.
You have power in your words, I hope you don’t hold them back.
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Thanks! And you are right. Only spontaneity can keep bringing out the truth in us or else it will all become made up.
That…and I’ve been equally unsure about my blog name and the sub-title…’words to change the world’.
But I’ll keep it as it is. Till I change it 🙂
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Perfect! 🙂
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How judiciously you have used the two words in different contexts!. That’s a brilliant set of haikus 🙂
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That was excellent! The phase wise explanation has turned out beautiful. My favorite is the last one!
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Thanks Prakash!
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