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Responses to the haiku for 25 April 2005 by Mitzi Trout

1.  
   H. Gene Murtha (Genemurt at cs dot com)
   2005-04-25 18:19:29
    

   I am aware who you are and I have read many of
   your haiku, but, what is a [brown thash?] or did
   you intend this to be a [brown thrasher?]
   
   always,
   
   Gene
   H. Gene Murtha

2.  
   Mixx
   2005-04-25 19:06:51
    

   such a clever trout
   capturing a mockingbird
   here for all to see

3.  
   Bill Kenney
   2005-04-25 19:33:53
    

   suddenly silver
   as they turn in their flight
   city pigeons

4.  
   bob richardson (orgbob at webtv dot net)
   2005-04-26 04:42:44
    

   the bird of my youth
   
   ["Brown" "thrush" A common American singing bird (Harporhynchus rufus) also called brown thrasher.(Toxostoma rufums)] @
   
   
   @ webster
   
   
   now, i'm curious about the brown thrash, or perchance you meant brown thrush, gene

5.  
   kate (chrismomxyz at yahoo dot com)
   2005-04-26 10:12:54
    

   blessedly
   unaware of semantics,
   knee deep in clover

6.  
   bob richardson (orgbob at webtv dot net)
   2005-04-26 11:13:51
    

   mangoes in bloom --
   aroma
   enters my taste buds

7.  
   Mitzi Hughes Trout
   2005-04-26 11:44:42
    

   I am inundated with messages and I thank all of you. A mystery! I clearly wrote and sent the
   haiku as
   
   brown thrush
   those long legs lost
   in clover
   
   I am bewildered by two responses where the
   reader saw "brown thrush" as "brown thrash".
   Although I am not an expert bird watcher, I
   would never call a thrush or thrasher a "thrash".
   
   Please clarify.
   
   Blessings,
   
   Mitzi

8.  
   ed markowski (1elmarko at comcast dot net)
   2005-04-26 15:26:22
    

   mitzi,
   well done classic haiku. quality is more
   desirable anyway. things move slow down
   south, nothing wrong with that...
   ed
   
   magnolia blossoms
   i'll change the sparkplugs
   when the sun goes down
   
   
   assembly line
   it's lined with broken
   men & women

9.  
   bob richardson (orgbob at webtv dot net)
   2005-04-26 20:14:29
    

   good evening mitzi,
   the (mystery) might be clarified through the usage of a word few people perceive, "judgmental". rather than understand what's being said and only that, there's a (rash) rush to rationalize, to read more into a situation than what's being presented. look at some of the responses; thoughts plausible but false.
   
   aha!!! some might think, akin to (a haiku)
   
   evening breeze
   rippling pine needles
   whispers in the dark

10.  
    Edmund Schwellenbach
    2005-04-26 21:30:21
     

    Dear Mitzi,
    
    The brown thrush is not a thrush, and Gene Murtha, who is a birder, may have tried to say that. However, brown thrush is a very common and frequently used synonymous name for the brown thrasher, which is also the brown mockingbird. Even Audubon, on its web site, says all three names refer to the same bird.
    
    Gene added to the confusion by misspelling brown thrush as "brown thash"(not even brown thrash).
    
    Ed Schwellenbach

11.  
    john tiong chunghoo
    2005-04-28 23:52:04
     

    below the blooms
    and the leaves
    long leggy stalks

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