a ladybug
throwing my thought
this way and that
Comment: an ichibutsujitate 一物仕立て (‘single image’) piece of work that binds the poet’s feelings to the smallest elements of nature (shizen 自然), here represented by the ladybug (tentōmushi 天道虫), which is a summer kigo (cf. another well-known haiku by Mitsuhashi Takajo: 天道虫天の密書を翅裏に, a ladybug/ under its wings/ a heavenly message). The alliteration of the ‘t’ sound in lines 2-3 reinforces, with its hardness and solidity, the sense of loss of the protagonist, whose thoughts are tossing and turning ‘this way and that’, according to the unpredictable movements of poetic inspiration.
Here, Agus Maulana Sunjaya shows the distraction something so tiny can create, including our thoughts, and almost taking charge of what direction they take:
a ladybug
throwing my thought
this way and that
Agus Maulana Sunjaya
There is something special about an individual adult ladybug/ladybird travelling around our hand, and again taking charge of us for a moment, or two.
Yellow-rattle meadow–
a two spot ladybird turning
my hand around
Alan Summers
Hermitage ed. Ion Codrescu (Romania, 2005)
Wonderful haiku by Agus Maulana Sunjaya!
warm regards,
Alan Summers
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Agus,
Striking allteration draws the reader into the topsy turvy moment of transience.
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Well done.
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Jan in Texas
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