17 Apr 2011

#17




Spring tides strike terror;
unguarded shorelines cower.
Wave-mallets sculpt land.




For Day #17 at Writer's Island and linked to Poetry Pantry

14 comments:

  1. Lovely picture (begging to be made into a quilt), and a superb haiku.

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  2. Jinksy, love the haiku and that picture is interesting. Are you receiving a lot of rain?

    Pamela

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  3. Wave-mallets, that's a great way of phrasing it.

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  4. Is that how Chisel Beach got its name? No, wait...

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  5. wow great poem!


    luna

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  6. This is an astonishing piece... the picture and poem as a unit. I love the idea of waves as mallets - so original.

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  7. Jinksy,

    Both the beauty and the danger within nature...Captured by this lovely poem.

    Eileen

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  8. Image and poem marry well, both striking and complimenting one another.

    Elizabeth

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  9. I'll just repeat what others have said - "wave-mallets" is such a great image. I like how the first two lines suggest attack with "terror" and "unguarded", but then art in the third with "sculpt". The power and beauty of nature.

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  10. What a powerful haiku. Your imagery is stunning.

    Thanks for participating in last week's Limerick-Off. Your entry came in right after I named the winners. :) But I've already posted a new Limerick-Off challenge and hope you'll be a regular participant.

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  11. This is a great image and the language is beautiful.

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  12. Concern, real and true, so concisely shared.

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  13. Nice work with the words and the visual effects.

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  14. Scary scene. Love "wave mallets", such an apt description of something so powerful it can pulverize.

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