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sweet fall of snow
all colour lost from the earth
marsh-mallow trees
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dancing on my tongue
what taste this prickle
purely ice melting
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a ‘Damien Hirst’
white upon white – upon white?
tasteless but nouveau!
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Remembrance by Damien Hirst
The theme at Haiku-Heights is … Snow
Image © Damien Hirst
anonemouspoet 
Hard to read but worth the effort x Enjoyed the series of haiku x loved the art critique! My sentiments exactly ~ Damien hirst lives near me at toddington manor!
Thank you for making the effort!
It was deliberately difficult but while the low contrast between text and background were obviously intentional, perhaps it made things just a little too difficult. I’ve changed it slightly.
My intention is not to offer art critique; I find some of Hirst’s work to be extremely intelligent. Some, however, is repetition and occasionally mere production.
However, I find that there are too numerous coincidences of interest that I share with DH – butterflies on flowers, mandalas and escape – to be too critical. Works of art, like poetry resonate with the observer and perhaps sometimes the failure to resonate with the observer / reader can lie with me rather than the artist?
Its snowing in my place right now and I can see the marsh mallow trees ~
I think the white artwork will be good against the black or darker background ~
Hi Grace
you’re so lucky – here we have only rain and more rain!
You may well be right, however the intent is to show the ‘all colour lost’ and ‘white upon white … upon white’ of the poem (and heavenhappens is right, to some small extent, this may be a little critical of art, but then perhaps not – it is not my place).
The artist Damien Hirst shows two of his white(ish) on white works: Forget http://www.damienhirst.com/forget and Remembrance http://www.damienhirst.com/remembrance upon a white background.. who then am I to over-ride this?