gull solo
on a seaspray rainbow -
surf and rocks clash
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[Click hyperlink to listen to ocean surf on wma]
Written December 26th, 2004
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Yes, Gen, this truly is complementary with my "Sea Symphony" and your coupling it with the audio has the same effect as my pairing my piece with the contest image I for which I wrote that etheree. The sea is truly inspirational and I'll be getting to visit it in a week for the first time in many years.
Be ever bright,
Rod -
WOW the sounds of nature are breathtaking
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sweet
awww this was so wonderful...I could see everything in my mind and I love the background with it
Awesome job sis!
Kari -
I've been sitting here listening to your ocean link over and over.Your words and the sounds sooth my soul.Thank you.~~Suseann
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But of course, I know better than that! 
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so glad you didn't say, "seagull"
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Simple, yet very beautiful what I got to see here within the words you have entered some beautiful haiku's here
thank you for the images
Leander -
Gorgeous
You've done such a fantastic job, as the others have said, of painting the picture verbally. The sound accompanying it was great. Keep up the beautiful work, MaatKara!
~Griever -
very good
This is very beautiful. Your poem brought wonderful images of nature as well as the joy of playing in the surf.
A most pleasant read.
thanks,
John -
Lovely imagery... a wonderful haiku!
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simple
yes, a nice simple picture...
a good duality in movement - the gull and the sea;... -
Very nice!
Aha! Wow...nice scene here, Gennelle! I love the image presented through this haiku and the picture is just awesome! This 'ku combines the rainbow which is up above and the ocean which is below. I love sea gulls, rainbows and the oceans - you got all my favourite things in this 'ku! I feel like soaring too now! Very nice work!
-Charishma -
turbulently peaceful
I am fond of the haiku style, and I really like this haiku since it reminds me of home. I spent many long hours at The Lake, watching gulls and the water...well, off to read another one of your wonderful poems
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Perfect image to your haiku, you re-painted the picture with your words! Beautiful and very well done!
I wish lots of rainbows your life Gennelle
Love and peace,
Mari
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wow this is gorgeous!
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Thank you, Margaret! Good to have you back, safe and sound!
~ G;f -
Great imagery
There is such a tension between the gull soaring on the rainbow, and the violence of the waves below; but I think that the peace is not disturbed, the waves are doing what they ought. This is a scene which may be seen almost any time, and it only takes this attention to make it beautiful.
I should know better than to comment before coffee!
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Aha! Thank you Terry! That was the double meaning of 'solo on seaspray rainbow' I intended. I'm glad the imagery helped conjure those seaside memories, mine too.
I love Mendelssohn, by the way, especially his violin concertos.
~ Gennelle
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next meal ! .
a haiku that exploits my passion
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Nice piece.....
Don -
Why did I hear it as music, orchestral music, as I read?
Mendelssohn never wrote anything with such atmosphere, and he is master of the genre. Perhaps, because I have sat by the sea, and in peace overriding the sound of surf, watched many gulls. Altogether a beautiful experience of a poem! From the land of snowdrifts partway up my windows, simply lovely.
Thank you!
Terry -
Thank you! Ha, I hadn't consciously intended that, but it's true too...reader participation really is integral to haiku!
~ G
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i like the word play gull solo so low almost touching
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Thank you, Steve! Your perception was just what I hoped to suggest. Nature's symphonies are something to behold, aren't they?
~ G
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great verse and i know it was no accident that you found the perefct border too ... i could not help wonder while reading ... is the gull totally unaware of all the beauty below or is it simply looking for it's next meal.
Edited on Dec 26, 10:59 because ''.
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