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Shibari Haiku Renga

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Jade-Pandora

Published: May 4, 2008

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Literature Text

1
bindings creak
my weight settles—
spring rain

2
ropes braid my limbs—
spider's web

3
immobile—
a watchful fawn

4
suspended
shadow on the wall—
a sapling's quiver

5
mental timelessness—
herons take flight

6
crescent moon—
the rope master's work of art

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i came up with this idea of blending the poetic style of haiku with the artistic and fetish style of Japanese rope bondage = shibari.

the six haiku are linked as a renga, each piece related to one another.

i hope you as the reader will enjoy the uniqueness of first hand experience in rope fetish, with my growing 'voice' in the beautiful nature that i use to compare one art form to the other.