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Post by Brigid Briton on Mar 5, 2011 1:02:10 GMT -6
fingerless hands
move relentlessly
towards dawn
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Post by Fire Monkey on Mar 5, 2011 2:32:07 GMT -6
Sorry, but I'm having trouble with this one - can't quite get a handle on it.
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Post by SweetSilverBird on Mar 5, 2011 3:46:51 GMT -6
Tim; I believe our Brigid is referring to the hands of the clock.  Brigid and I were on Twitter, trying to find new ways to find members and passing a note now and then, and she wrote this one. I know it was getting later for her, and she needed to sleep. You and I are able to stay up longer since we are on the pacific coast. Brigid is the Haiku twitter-ku queen! |
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Post by Fire Monkey on Mar 5, 2011 4:04:38 GMT -6
Ah! Ok, I understand - and wth that understanding I think this is a good haiku.
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Post by Brigid Briton on Mar 5, 2011 14:07:49 GMT -6
Hi Deb and Tim, Thanks for your comments. Yeah, sometimes the nights get long, but that old red second-hand on the clock just keeps clicking along. Deb, thanks for filling Tim in. Tim, I'm sure you would have figured it out eventually... on the other hand...  Brigid |
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Post by Fire Monkey on Mar 5, 2011 18:24:30 GMT -6
Maybe I've been digital too long ;D
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Post by Brigid Briton on Mar 5, 2011 19:01:25 GMT -6
Ah, Tim, this subject is one so fraught with double meanings, I love it! That said, doesn't "digital" have something to do with "fingers"   |
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Post by Fire Monkey on Mar 5, 2011 19:14:53 GMT -6
I suppose that it - hey wait! I'm I being given the finger? [sorry - my mind runs on free association ;D] There was a time I would think "hands-clock" but now I am a bit slow on that one I love to play with words, so when I can say something and use words that give multiple meanings which could apply it is hard to resist doing so ;D |
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Post by Brigid Briton on Mar 5, 2011 19:29:56 GMT -6
Well, Tim, if you're talking to the clock, you're not being given any fingers even if it happens to be a "digital" clock. If you're talking to me, I have ten fingers (well, technically eight fingers and two thumbs) but I'm not going to give you any of them---too hard to type without them. |
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Post by Fire Monkey on Mar 5, 2011 20:32:58 GMT -6
Ah well, I tend to type two or four fingered - well, two fingers and a thumb or two and sometimes an extra finger. I learned to type 10 finger but I find it just as fast or even faster the way I do it - I never did get any real speed at typing |
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Post by eiken on Mar 13, 2011 15:13:40 GMT -6
Brigid, I really enjoyed this haiku, it could have many meanings but the visuals are amazing when you read it at first, the fingerless hands, strong image and their continuous movement, and dawn, open to so many colours. Wonderful haiku |
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Post by daphnepurpus on Mar 13, 2011 15:37:58 GMT -6
Beautiful haiku. I did see the twitter posts earlier, but honestly I'd forgotten them and I think fingerless hands works wonderfully for time with or without a clock, or so I read it. I agree with eiken about the depth here and isn't that what makes haiku so powerful! :-)
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