Carpe Diem Haiku – Sodo’s “nothing-everything”

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in my hut this spring,
there is nothing, –
there is everything!

From this wonderful by Sodo we are to be inspired to write something new in the same spirit. There is something about emptiness that makes us much more aware. Only when we’re hungry will we really appreciate every morsel of food the nature gives us, and like Karin Boye says in her poem I rörelse

Den mätta dagen, den är aldrig störst.
Den bästa dagen är en dag av törst

or translated by David McDuff:

The sated day is never first.
The best day is a day of thirst.

Which makes me write:

the only map
to find the desert well
is my thirst

Alfred Chataud

Alfred Chataud


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September 21, 2014

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