haiku-usa: equinox

Sunday, September 22, 2013

fall equinox

what I have left

undone

Adelaide said...: There's always tomorrow.

Adelaide; 8:32 PM
Frank... said...: We all leave things undone...; 9:00 AM
Bill said...: Ah, Adelaide, but tomorrow will be shorter than today.

Thanks, Frank. Good to know I'm not alone.

In fact, I got this from the Book of Common Prayer: "what I have done and what I have left undone." It seemed to me an appropriate autumnal theme, especially, with its balanced construction (which, of course, is presented here in a truncated, and therefore unbalanced form), for the equinox. I hope it works for readers who don't catch the allusion.; 10:45 AM
Danièle Duteil said...: Yes, an appropriate and interesting automnal theme.; 11:39 AM
Gillena Cox said...: still some things to be done; pretty sure of that; nice introspective mood

much love...; 11:22 AM
Bill said...: Thank you, Daniele and Gillena.; 3:33 PM
Monika said...: Ce haïku me rappelle ce bon vieux conseil de la tribu des procrastinateurs à laquelle j'appartiens :

Pourquoi faire aujourd'hui
quelque chose qu'on peut remettre
à demain ?

;-); 11:20 AM
Bill said...: Ah, Monika, I've lived by that advice for eighty years, and, I must confess, things are beginning to pile up.; 2:11 PM

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