Thursday, 21 February 2008



oblačna noč
lunino izginotje
prikrito

***

what the haiga says is not entirely true... there was enough clear sky to see the lunar eclipse or at least its earlier stages but since it started in the middle of the night (total eclipse at cca 4 a.m. local time) with a long work day ahead for me, i was nowhere near recording it

19 comments:

laughing granny said...

a good play with words and ideas... and a good picture, too - however did you think of it!:-)

Masago said...

Nice surrogate though.

Janice Thomson said...

I didn't get to see it - did it turn reddish as predicted?
Good one Polona!

J. Andrew Lockhart said...

we had too much clouds. :(

Margie said...

I saw it!
It was incredible!
Good, good, Polona!

Margie

John McDonald said...

good one
john

floots said...

what a wonderful image to accompany such a thought
(it was also an eclipse pun to me - knot hole/not whole)
hey - there's a gale blowing and i can't go out :)
cheers

Anonymous said...

Tole obesedovanje ti je pa fejst ratalo... No, pa saj to že itak vem, da si mojstrica...

Prikrito ali neprikrito, menda je bilo...

Imej se najlepše, kar se da... Po napornem petkovanju si vzami čas samo zase...

Trobim in trobim..., ponavadi tisto, kar rabim sama ;))))))))))))

Kakorkoli. Lep vikend.

Objem, Lucija

Pat Paulk said...

What an interesting photo. Saw it here in between the clouds. Love it!!

Crafty Green Poet said...

we missed it this time, cloudy sky, 3am, we didn't have a chance. but we saw it a few years ago, wonderful sight. Love this haiga

Anonymous said...

Posnetek za cekin in pol; hehe:)))
Res prima!

upam, da si boljse, sicer pa je pred vrati vikend, odpocij si, ce se le da.

Lbn
neikka

goatman said...

Eclipse made me wonder how much bigger the earth's disk is from that of the moon, at that distance. Should be calculatable as a difference in curvatures? If you could measure the curvatures.
Nice poem Polona.

Anonymous said...

I did get to see it and it was marvelous!

polona said...

višnja: well, that knot hole reminded me of the moon the moment i picced it so the connection wasn't difficult
as for the rest, well, the eclipse wa out of sight for me :)

masago: thank you :-)

janice: i didn't get to see this one either but i saw some photos and it was indeed reddish
thank you

andrew: sorry about that

margie: you lucky girl! :)
i'm happy for you, though, and thanks

john: thank you

floots: well, my english isn't good enough to make intentipnal puns but any one will do :)
thank you
(gale? brrrrrr!)

lucija: ma, ponavadi kar nekaj rata (največkrat najprej v eng)
me sploh ne moti, če trobiš... pa se še sama drži svojih nasvetov, ok?
tudi tebi lep vikend in en tak pikapolončkat objem :)

pat: it was the best i could muster
this one was indeed out of sight for me
thank you

crafty green poet: ungodly hour + clouds... oh well, it happens.
maybe next time (not until 2010 though)
thanks

neikka: vsaj delovni teden je končan, če nič drugega...
hvala za pohvalo, lepo bodi!

goatman: interesting musing but a bit too technical for me :)
thank you

hat: good for you... i'm gladyou enjoyed

Bill said...

we leave the opera
after act two
lunar eclipse

Elena Horowitz-Brookes said...

I don't blame you for not showing up for that act. It would take a lot to get me out of bed that time of the morning. But your photo and words are marvelous.

polona said...

bill: that's a good haiku/senryu
thank you

boulies: not an early riser either, eh?
anyway, i took what i had to work with but didn't want the event to go unrecorded :)
thank you

gautami tripathy said...

What a play with words!

polona said...

many thanks, gautami.