The NOHS Memorial Haiku Reading for our friend Vaughn Banting was filled with laughter and joy as each person shared memories of Vaughn and read poems by and in homage to Vaughn. During the event, the group participated in the following renga:
CODGERS COGITATE
codgers cogitate
frost on green grass
crunch
friends in a circles
haring stories
of the bonsai master
who pruned
toasting memories
with wine
wondering about
his cat
TAPS
soul or body
brain tumor - now with wings!
song of the butterfly
Zen garden
koto
before Katrina
long walks
now, an empty wheelchair
a sad squirrel
a sleeping branch
an open sky
waiting for tomorrow
a new bloom opens
a lost hard-on?
living with infirmities
he pours more wine
she straddles his lap
match made in heaven
last cigarette
geckos cursing at dusk
melting chocolate tales
out of school
a family crest
finds itself under his finger
she carefully tends the roots
the roots of eternity
are planted today
growing tomorrow
distorted by the wind
ashes of a friend
make their way
to the garden
dreamers all
until the stuttering cicada
wakes us!
-----by: Laura, Karel, Bob, Bill, Carolyn, Johnette, Juliet and David
Please feel free to view some photos taken during the event at: http://haikuguy.com/nov08.html
Vaughn is dearly missed and will forever be in our hearts.
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