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brandon w
12-05-2005, 01:51 AM
The barns burnt
down, so now I can see
the moon.

(I found it on a rock if you can belive that)

B-Mental
12-05-2005, 07:01 AM
not actually a haiku, but I like it. I would say that the owner of the farm can see the moon from his/her bed now the barn is gone. or maybe with less chores to do and more free time the farmer can stop and enjoy things for awhile.

Scheherazade
12-05-2005, 07:08 AM
Or maybe it is written from the point of view of the animals that were kept in the barn? Now that the barn is burnt down, they are free and can see the sky again?

(Agree with B-Mental that it is not a haiku (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiku))

Welcome to the Forum, Brandon! :)

*edit*

Also, I will move this thread to the General Poetry section since it is not your own work.

Lautschrift
12-05-2005, 07:17 AM
growth
leaving (destroying) the past
immediatley accepting
awakening to positivity and the desire to seek the future

white camellia
12-05-2005, 07:35 AM
'Barns' and 'moon', the two distinct images, could serve as some symbols here, the former the bonds of self-aggrandizement (farm products and the red color of barns implicates that), the latter the yearning for the peace of mind and human's nature, or perceiving something intricate and delusive.
A rock on a farm? Maybe someone did burn down the barns and then left these words there!
By the way, does not that Haiku require three lines of five, seven, and five syllables? Or this has been written in the variant form?

brandon w
12-07-2005, 02:06 AM
Thanks everyone. The variant form I belive. I have always throught of it as, distroying the worldy humanistic or materialistic things leads to what ever it is that a person really needs to see. It also reminds me of "As I Lay Dying"