The Shed – Haiku 2025; Thursday Doors Writing Challenge

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Image credit: © Darlene Foster

grass-bearded shed door—

a staff leaning on the past

a lonely cloud floats

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Dan Antion’s Thursday Doors Annual Writing Challenge (#TDWC). Image credit: Darlene Foster.

Published by Suzette Benjamin

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44 thoughts on “The Shed – Haiku 2025; Thursday Doors Writing Challenge”

  3. There’s something quietly wonderful about sheds. They offer space and placement for all the precious tools needed to tend a home or garden—tools that shape, trim, mend, and nurture. In their modesty, sheds serve without fuss, holding the rhythm of domestic life in hammers, rakes, and spades.

    Perhaps that’s why, in the image and your poem, the grass creeps gently up to its walls—as if in homage. It remembers. It knows that once, the tools to tame it rested here, before the shed fell into disuse. Now weathered and leaning, it stands forgotten, its purpose fulfilled and set aside.

    Above it all, a single cloud floats past, a quiet witness to time’s passing. There’s no sadness, only stillness, and a kind of reverence for what once was.

    Lovely writing.

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    1. Your reflections are beautifully warmhearted, offering a gentle gaze at the poem’s sentiments regarding the value of long-held history and stories of the well-used shed.
      I love your point about the shed’s value being fulfilled and how it now stands as a monument/legacy to the past, assured that it has served its purpose for which it was anointed/crafted long ago.

      I love your insight on the cloud as a “witness”, remote yet seemingly so close… another nod, perhaps to the passage of time that has gone by but still hovers over the landscape of the mind.

      I don’t know how you gather such wonderful fragments from the poem’s sentiments, but I am deeply humbled by your brilliant explications.

      “Thank you” seems a mere teapoon of appreciation inadequate to express the my overflowing cup of appreciation for your kind remarks, and brilliant analyses. Bless you!

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      1. You are most welcome, Poet.
        That teaspoon of “thank you” means the world to me.
        As I’ve often said, your work is a springboard—launching me into my own world of reflection, helping me gather my thoughts, and reminding me what a blessing it is to write every day.

        Thank you and much blessings too, you are most kind.

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  11. This piece is so expressive, and brings on fond memories of day trips through country sides. Your words give the shed personality. Superbly written.

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  12. “Lonely” captures shed and cloud both. It’s truly a portrait of old age, and yet there’s something hopeful about it. Maybe it’s the hint of history or the possibility of continued purpose. “Grass-bearded” is inspired!

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  15. Thanks so much for choosing my photo. Your haiku is wonderful. You captured the feeling so well with such few words. The picture was taken at my great grandparents’ homestead in southern Alberta, Canada. You have an amazing way with words.

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