Tao Talk
You have reached a quiet bamboo grove, where you will find an eclectic mix of nature, music, writing, and other creative arts. Tao-Talk is curated by a philosophical daoist who has thrown the net away.
You have reached a quiet bamboo grove, where you will find an eclectic mix of nature, music, writing, and other creative arts. Tao-Talk is curated by a philosophical daoist who has thrown the net away.
Tao Talk 
Love the rhythm and flow of the prose, Li, and the haiku rocks it all together. Congrats and THANKS
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Ron. Thank you for reading and your kind words.
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Happy New Year
🎇much love
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Happy New Year, Gillena!
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Ah, the cycle of life is so exquisite and evocative. Happy New Year!
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Dennis, thank you very much, yes it is. Happy New Year!
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I love your creative imagination, Lisa. Great choice of song!
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Dwight, thank you. I have to give credit to Clarissa Pinkola-Estes for the idea of using bones. I’m re-reading women who run with the wolves. She talks the bones in the desert but the idea of bones in winter being snow came to me, which started the poem.
I love that song and have that album and have listened to it many times. Their harmonies cannot be beat.
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That is such a great metaphor!
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p.s. the idea of fleshing out bones also comes from her
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:>)
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I love the ‘urban’/stark imagery in your prose and the relief of ‘natural’ elements in your haiku – Jae
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Jae, thank you so much for your feedback. Much appreciated.
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Wow! Such vivid prose, punctuated by a perfect, haiku thrust! Great write, Li!
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Frank, thank you, your prompt got me started. Of course I had to find an epiphany from nature.
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The rhythm coupled with the repetition in sound creates a great atmosphere. (K)
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Glad you liked it, Kerfe. Thank you for the feedback. Thank goodness snow is white, or winter would be grim here.
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Yes. What’s left here is grey and dingy.
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Vividly evocative! And a perfect epiphany, renewing annually.
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Thanks and exactly. Who says epiphanies can’t be recycled ;)
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A very evocative Haibun Li.
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Thanks, Sadje!
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You’re most welcome my friend
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I know those bones of winter, Lisa, and I love your evocation of the cold, with the ‘piles of bones, pushed and blown into convenient places’, a perfect description of the snow we are currently experiencing her in North Norfolk. And oh, those wooden capillaries stretching across grey skies! Your prose is vivid and cinematic, and I love the blossoming of the haiku!
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Kim, I love what you see in the poem. Thank you <3
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I love this. I find so much amazing beauty in snow and ice- it makes my heart glad to read a poem by someone else who sees it too.
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Thanks so much, V. I do love snow and ice.
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Wonderfully descriptive!
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Thanks Steve :)
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I love the subtlety of this beautiful prose, Lisa. We are lost in your descriptions and then the haiku comes in and brings it home.
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Dale, your kind comment is much appreciated <3
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💞
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Great haibun, Lisa! I love the idea of the branches hiding under their leaves.
Yvette M Calleiro :-)
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Sneaky little buggers ;) Thanks, Yvette.
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My goodness…I really, really relate to this. Great title, and great writing. You really hit, but is cathartic.
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Ain, it pleases me to hear it had that effect on you <3
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So beautiful, your words feel like a painting, abstracted in all the shapes and then the feeling of the cold harshness of winter to the gentle change to spring. I agree very evocative.
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Happy you enjoyed the poem, Di. Thanks!
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wonderful haibun Li 💜💜💖💖
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