a simple pleasure haiku for osi July 20, 2008
Posted by Sandy in haiku.Tags: haiku
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The prompt this week for One Single Impression is rest. For anyone who has the honor of owning a real cotton quilt. Don’t keep it stiff and new, the more you use it, the better it gets.
This really happened a week or so ago. Never have I seen a field cleared so fast. The storm hit just after the last truck rolled away.
Ohhh, there’s nothing like a soft cotton quilt. They’ve been having to hay quickly around here, too, with all of the rain we’ve been getting.
Just looking at the quilt lowers my blood pressure. It’s too warm for quilts now but I still caress mine daily. I love the feel of cotton.
Lovely haiku on two of my favorite things!! I have the pleasure of owning many quilts. In fact, I use to quilt but had to give it up due to time & space constraints. I love hay bales! I posted some photos of a field of bales a week or so ago.
You speak simple pleasures so artfully. A beautiful image. And, my brother finally got his hay up but it did get rained on…. I really like the ‘kus.
Yes, old cotton quilts are so wonderful and snuggly. We have fields of golden hay bales just outside of town - I’ve always loved the way they look.
Oh that looks and sounds inviting! Can’t wait for “quilt weather” again.
I love that “simple pleasure,” and I love the contrasting thought of foregoing rest as a matter of necessity.
You’ve beautifully incorporated this prompt with two great photos. Especially like the quilt one.
These are both beautiful. The quilt one touches my heart, though I have no quilt at present. Years ago I had one that was, to be honest, hideously ugly, but wonderfully comforting and precious to me. I felt safe beneath it’s comforting weight.
The second is an exquisite photo and a beautiful poem. I love them both but this second one is my favorite.
Ah … as tired as I feel (even though it’s only mid-day … napping under an old quilt would be such a luxury ;–)
I enjoyed BOTH your images and haiku for this week’s prompt.
Hugs and blessings,
Lovely haiku! The first is so inviting. Worn quilts are so soft. I agree with Storyteller, although napping is always a luxury in my world! I love the photo in the second.
Yes, we are sisters. There are four of us.
I “inherited” a wonderfully worn cotton quilt when I moved here and, yes, it is sooo delightful to nap beneath. The second ‘ku gave me a rather breathless chuckle. I can just see the rush ….
I surely enjoyed your cotton quilt haiku - nice and restful.
There’s nothing like an afternoon nap (especially since I’m up half the night blooging!). I really enjoyed your photography too.
Thank You for sharing.
I remember helping bring hay in before the rain at my in-laws. What hard and frantic work. Thanks for the poems.
I hope every one I make is well used and soft. Great poem.
Very beautiful. I love quilts, especially the old ones. I have a collection from over 20 years, and it makes me smile. When my husband and son were off camping, I slept under one of the oldest ones. Comfort supreme.~~Dee
mmm… this quilt feels very appealing.
Such lovely messages of haiku. I DO have (and made) quitls like this and I agree. And so true about getting those hay rolls in before the rain.
I can feel the quilt and the hurriedness of hay baling ahead of the rain - these are lovely pieces!
Such beautiful photography. Love the queen ann lace with hay bales. I would not have thought to photograph one. Your photos are very evocative of country life and each tells its own brief story.
Marnie
Wonderful haiku poems! I love comfy quilts. Very pretty photos. We live in the country, too, and although we don’t have a farm, we see the round bales everywhere (sometimes square ones, too).
The second haiku makes me want to take a rest. Haying is such difficult work.
These are wonderful! I love the soft feel of the cotton quilt, and I think it’s great the way you used the prompt for the opposite of rest… very enjoyable!