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Haiku #4 -- Bridges
04/15/07

This week the prompt over at One Deep Breath was about bridges.

here to there; far, near
low to high; short, long, longer
connect and divide

Yes, that whole strip in the top image is a bridge. Click on it. Then, when you get to the album page, click on the magnifier (right of the "share photo" link). The second bridge is the bridge from the swamp to the hill in the section of the Appalachian Trail that we run away to. I bet you can guess which bridge inspired which words. But the division thing is from this quote a gentleman said to me. "Pam, there are three things that will divide families, communities, cities ... bridges, bodies of water, and train tracks."


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Last comment made by sari ~ 04/17/07
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daisies 04/16/07
i am really enjoying your haiku :)
~ Thanks, daisies! ~pam
Mike 04/17/07
Interesting ways to look at bridges, bodies of water and train tracks. I look at them the other way. I think they keep families, communities and cities together.


Mike
http://somethingaboutparenting.typepad.com/


~ Ya know I thought the same thing ... until I lived at the far end of a very long bridge that spanned a lake. Then I understood. They are very capable of doing both. Still, it took the gentleman saying it to me bluntly for me to fully recognize that they separate as much as they connect. ~pam
sari 04/17/07
Wonderful pictures - I love all the pieces it took to make the top photo!

~ Thanks Sari! ~pam
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