I travel back 300 years before my lifetime. I move in time but not in space staying rooted to this spot on earth. Who lives on this soil? What grows here? If I could, I would see the whole story unfold from the beginning. We are specks, our history a blip in billions of years.
full rainfall at last
how long will these trees thrive
on rock and clay?
©️2018 Ontheland
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Love it fascinating
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Thank you 🙂
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The last few lines in italics feel auxiliary, but what an incisive and interesting exploration of time travel. Big fan.
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Thanks for dropping by. The last three lines are a haiku, part of the classical haibun form that I was attempting…on the theme of time travelling where I live, but yes there is a shift.
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Reblogged this on Frank J. Tassone and commented:
#Haiku Happenings #6: Janice’s latest #haibun for Heeding Haiku!
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Thank you for the reblog Frank 🙂
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My pleasure, Janice! 🙂
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The diagram puts our place on this world in perspective!! I feel very humbled … lovely haiku, Janice … your post has left me thoughtful!
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Thank you Annika…the diagram is humbling.
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Excellent! 😎🥀
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Thank you 🙂
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Read a poem recently in which the poet questions and converses with a rock; this makes that make sense. They, alone, hold the stories.
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So true 🙂
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Here’s a graphic novel with this idea you might enjoy
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20587888-here
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The premise of the novel sounds fascinating…I might look for a copy through local sources.
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I received it as a birthday gift. There is something new to see each time I look at it.
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I love that feeling of being connected to the immensity of geological time. It brings with it a tremendous sense of being an ‘earthling’, of being rooted and grounded in Mother Earth.
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There is a science show about the universe I like to watch that has evolution set in days and years on a calendar. And while I know I am not remembering it exactly; humans are a blip of seconds on the last day of the 31st… or something like that.
You also remind me of another show I liked to watch about a magical Highlander… who often had flashbacks of going back in time and standing on the same location/ spot.
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Both shows sound interesting 🙂
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hoooo so amazing I can feel about life in your post.. I also write my opinion about time and space.. please read my post 🙂 https://iniruangkosong.wordpress.com/2018/08/13/time-travel-di-samping-kita/
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Thank you…I would read your blog but unfortunately I don’t know the language.
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ohhh sorry, maybe i should write in english next tim.. thank you
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A great fantasy
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The diagram puts our place on this world in perspective!! Báo giá đá xây dựng I feel very humbled … lovely haiku, Janice … your post has left me thoughtful!
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