Revisiting my book "Up the Mtn" page #24,haiga #148

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How does this image and this haiku in this haiga speak to me! Let me count the ways. 

Well the bokeh of the image centers our attention into it's visual tact sharpness, which acts as a catalyst into the ambiguity of what lies beyond this image and this poem is one.

fall autumns, a play on words, one that has literal and figurative meaning. Fall in this haiga's image and haiku is autumning, maturing, coming into it's inevitable end, and rebirth. This haiga autumns at such a point where it has reached its visual zenith, in regards to the way it looked this particular fall. The choice of a digitally browned and grey toned B & W enhances the vision of autumn blooming into full maturity; much like Cherry petals falling away in Spring from a blossoming Cherry Tree. Yet autumn is traditionally representative of autumn or fall. 

beyond coloured foliage, speaks to whatever the reader feels it communicates to them. For me it speaks to what occurs visually, spiritually, cosmically, literally after the colour in the leaves and other foliage dissipates into grey and brown. I began the verse with the word beyond, since for me beyond speaks to what lyes beyond death, fall, and seasonal change, that transition time just after and just before each rebirth or season. 

Can there be something deeper than mere colour, is the blandness of grey and brown, in someway more colourfull then the reds, greens, and yellows of fall or autumn.

From a more visual perspective, how does the image speak to this beyond. Beyond colour, beyond autumning, beyond the rain, just beyond the bokeh that blurs our perception of what is just beyond the trees, the foliage, and the sheets of rain.

This haiga speaks to what is beyond us, the unknown, the unplanned for,  the existence that is neither past, present, or future, and transcends all simultaneously. The haiga does not so much make a definitive statement, but makes observations and speaks to being open ended. 

Together the haiga's image and haiku complement one another. On the one hand the image begins by directly portraying a forested landscape scene. On the other hand the image, in concert with the poem act as guiding lines into and beyond the image and the poem. Beyond the haiga, into the ambiguous unknown yet to have formed meaning, the beyond. The beyond, beyond the image, beyond the poem, beyond the haiga, and into the beyond of the mind's eye of it's audience.