Photo of Eiffel Tower, Paris by Qingbo Sun
"The garden" is the One Deep Breath theme this week. For me, hydrangeas on my balcony comprise the only thing remotely resembling a garden. So for my haiku I focused on a manicured landscape of trees along the Champ de Mars, fronting the city's much-touted architectural wonder.
French marvel shrouded
in mist; treeline pruned to match.
Man, nature unite.
Shaping trees to match
stark relief against the sky
obscured by dense fog.
Famous silhouette
accented by row of trees,
echoing design.
I'm sorry I missed another great theme. Your photo and haiku are wonderful!
Posted by: Willow Grace | 07 August 2006 at 06:34
The picture is lovely! The way it just disapears... I want an Eiffel Tower for myself!
And the words - I especially like the middle verse.
Posted by: Clare | 03 August 2006 at 22:32
Beautiful illusions--I love the line
man, nature unite
and the pruned trees.
thanks
Posted by: Maxly | 03 August 2006 at 14:44
Love each haiku..thank you for the photo lovely!
Posted by: naturegirl | 01 August 2006 at 12:13
The photo and haiku series complement one another so well! Lovely post.
Posted by: tinker | 01 August 2006 at 07:38
I love the fog. Bet you could sneek a kiss in up there and no one would see! I had a pic of the hub on our honeymoon under the Tower and it was my all-time fav. It flew behind a built-in bookshelf in Georgetown never to be seen again. Who knows where the negs are at this stage!! Oh well.
Posted by: Rosa | 01 August 2006 at 04:01
Oh, your photo looks so beautiful and your Haiku are perfect with it!
Posted by: mikim | 01 August 2006 at 03:58
Beautiful Haikus Tara. Just beautiful. And the Eiffel Tower? Double love~!
Posted by: bella | 01 August 2006 at 03:37
I adore the Eiffel Tower, I really do. That photo is stunning and I know it's not cool and that many people don't like it, but I love the lighting up/sparkle show that happens nowadays.
Posted by: kristen | 01 August 2006 at 00:00
Beautiful subject and haiku. Not many have the Eiffel Tower to work with!
Posted by: gardenpath (sandy) | 31 July 2006 at 23:50
The photo has dramatic values of light and dark, and interesting angles. The mist& tower are awesome.
Love the haiku's.
Posted by: Gemma | 31 July 2006 at 23:11
I love the photo and the poems. Particularly the line about man and nature coming together. Beautiful!
Posted by: Bug | 31 July 2006 at 22:48
That photo just draws me in with the angles you've chosen and all of it disappearing into fog. Very descriptive haiku for a fascinating picture.
Posted by: Star | 31 July 2006 at 21:31
Gorgeous photo and haiku!
Posted by: Jodi | 31 July 2006 at 20:54
That photo is stunning! Nice series of haiku too, especially the last one.
Posted by: Crafty Green Poet | 31 July 2006 at 20:37
Fabulous photograph! Your poems capture the mood perfectly... The "architecture" of Nature rules here--lovely!
Posted by: Sally | 31 July 2006 at 19:35
I had the same excitement, scrolling down, through white cloud and on into that instantly familiar construction, that I had when I saw La Tour with my eyes and realised I really was in Paris. What a picture you chose.
But enough about the images. I always love the images you put with your words, sometimes I forget there are words too, which is criminal.
So..
What I like best is how you're looking at the view as a joining of the man made with the natural. Which is more marvellous: nature achieving beauty without our help, or human hands managing to create something that doesn't ruin what's already there?
Posted by: Jemima von Schindelberg | 31 July 2006 at 19:05
these are wonderful, tara!
yes, i did go up once, i'm sure i did. i like the high flying bird in the picture.
Posted by: ian russell | 31 July 2006 at 18:06
beautiful and enchanting
Posted by: jennifer | 31 July 2006 at 17:32
Its clever how you wrote about the same topic using various word choices..."shrouded," "obscured," and "accented"...all rich and all precise :-)
(That didn't sound too much like a teacher, did it?!)
Posted by: susanlavonne | 31 July 2006 at 17:29
What a perfect choice! The fog is the cherry on top :)
Fabulous haiku..."shrouded in mist" was suberb!
Posted by: Tammy | 31 July 2006 at 16:36
Ah yes. The twice I have made it to the top the Tour Eiffel it has been misty, still worth it though despite my shaking knees.
A stunning elegance in your haiku as ever, Tara.
Posted by: bb | 31 July 2006 at 16:34
That Tower is beautiful, even "shrouded in mist."
Your haiku series really captures the symmetry in the photo - the trees and shrubs all aligned, even the lightposts adding another layer, and everything so perfectly "shaped to match." Lovely...
Posted by: becca | 31 July 2006 at 16:12
That famous Eiffel I never tire of it! Never!
Posted by: Tongue in Cheek | 31 July 2006 at 15:08