A Persian Carpet

on
A HAIKU

Beautifully weaved
Lace uniquely intertwined
Colors are so bright

Crafted with pleasure
By little fingers and hands
Designed with fine art

Carpets from Persia
Are just but mats on the floor
Just rugs filled with dust

You have to bow low
So you can appreciate
Bend your knee even

Meant to be tread on
One foot after another
Filaments get loose

Soon as one gets by
After one feels the warmness
Beauty is dusted


05 May 2009
2:51am


Author's Note
A Persian Rug. So beautifully crafted but always taken for granted.

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letkrt said…
nice
May 6, 2009 at 5:18 PM
Sumtin sumtin... said…
Haiku is a poetic form and a type of poetry from the Japanese culture.

Haiku combines form, content, and language in a meaningful, yet compact form.

Usually they use simple words and grammar. The most common form for Haiku is three short lines.

The first line usually contains five (5) syllables, the second line seven (7) syllables, and the third line contains five (5) syllables.

Haiku doesn't rhyme. A Haiku must "paint" a mental image in the reader's mind.

This is the challenge of Haiku - to put the poem's meaning and imagery in the reader's mind in ONLY 17 syllables over just three (3) lines of poetry!
May 7, 2009 at 11:30 AM
apol said…
It's sad but it's the true that often we neglect beautiful things around us because we're just to busy to stop and appreciate like the Persian Rug. I wish i had one.
May 7, 2009 at 3:10 PM
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