This is my first blog post. You may wonder, why Blue Window? I’ll tell you. I was once in a rock and roll band, believe it or not, and one of the songs our band sang was “Helpless” by Neil Young. I loved these lyrics, especially:
Blue, blue windows behind the stars,
Yellow moon on the rise,
Big birds flying across the sky
Throwing shadows on our eyes….
Very nice! Thank you, Neil!
Several years later, I was reading, “A Writer’s Diary” by Virginia Woolf (edited by Leonard Woolf) and I kept finding haiku in her words. For example:
A very fine skyblue day--
my window completely filled
with blue for a wonder
Lovely! Thank you, Virginia!
This prompted me to write my own blue window haiku:
First day of spring--
my window
filled with blue
Then, on a trip to the South of France, I became obsessed with photographing windows with blue shutters.
And so, always being inspired by “blue” windows, I chose it for my blog title.
© B.J. Lee, 2011 all rights reserved
originally published in “Berry Blue Haiku,” March, 2011
Blue, blue windows behind the stars,
Yellow moon on the rise,
Big birds flying across the sky
Throwing shadows on our eyes….
Very nice! Thank you, Neil!
Several years later, I was reading, “A Writer’s Diary” by Virginia Woolf (edited by Leonard Woolf) and I kept finding haiku in her words. For example:
A very fine skyblue day--
my window completely filled
with blue for a wonder
Lovely! Thank you, Virginia!
This prompted me to write my own blue window haiku:
First day of spring--
my window
filled with blue
Then, on a trip to the South of France, I became obsessed with photographing windows with blue shutters.
And so, always being inspired by “blue” windows, I chose it for my blog title.
© B.J. Lee, 2011 all rights reserved
originally published in “Berry Blue Haiku,” March, 2011
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