August Blog Bash, Day 8 - Aubrie Cox @aubriecox

Welcome to the Debut
of the August Blog Bash 2012!

I am very much excited and honored to be hosting this new feature series... and it is a great way to end the summer!  This Blog Bash is an impressive talent showcase of poets, artists, and writers/authors from all walks of life.  For each day of this month, one individual will be featured here on this blog, at Origami Lotus Stones, my Twitter (hashtag will be #augblogbash), my Facebook community page, and on my blog page on Writing Our Way Home.  Please be patient while I post on all platforms. 

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Today's Feature:  Aubrie Cox

This haiku is beautifully written.  It has an ethereal and soothing effect.  Even though Cox's haiku was first published in bottle rockets, I first read it in her chapbook, tea's aftertaste (see my book review here).  Both the brevity and ambiguity here are craftily shown; each image ("harvest moon" and "tea's aftertaste") is filtered through the "branches" within the haiku.  I also love how both man and nature are present in this haiku, forming a perfect unity like yin and yang.  Now I want to harvest that lingering aftertaste of tea and enjoy this moment, don't you?!

The emotional depth in this tanka is sad and solemn but has a taste of acceptance of reality to it.  The transition from summer to autumn has multiple interpretations and experiences for all of us.  Although the poet's actual experience is not known (but we do know that the "music dies / in [her]"), Cox invites us to share in these emotions and her introspection within this tanka.  The problem though is that during this transition while the "summer leaves / [are] already falling" around us, do we recognize that crucial "time to move on"?  The "moving on" implies that there is something that we all hold onto, and in order for a change to happen, we must first let it go.

Such beautiful work, Aubrie!  Thank you so much for sharing and being one of the contributors!

(NB:  Text arrangement on MS PowerPoint by Kathy Uyen Nguyen.  Please note that text/graphics will be in this format.)

To check out more of Aubrie's work, you can click on the following links:

Yay Words! (blog/website)
@aubriecox (Twitter)

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