The two below are focused on how parents are protective of their kids. The goal was to mix that instinct to protect and foster growth with the environment. Thus, forces try to wipe out life, I wanted to show that there are pieces of the world that will protect the youth. Nothing is as unmoving as a boulder, so it made sense to me that a seedling that spouts inbetween boulders would inherently survive. So when I see the new parents in my life, I can only imagine that they are rocks that will protect those children they made. To the parents!
granite on both sides
wind lashes, storms surge – Berry
safe seed – a tree grows
~Theodore Maestranzi
Unmoving boulders
lone seed protected – parents
sapling becomes tree
~Theodore Maestranzi
Because my buddy who is a new father loves to correct my grammar (even when I speak) and his son looks like him, I feel like I am going to have a mini grammarian correcting my speech patterns soon enough. Therefore, I decided to drive him nuts with this personalized haiku.
Oh no, another
me is I, I is me – twins
my grammar assaulted
~Theodore Maestranzi