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A haiku is a highly structured poetic snippet consisting of three short phrases that together should trigger an image in your mind. You won't find haikus at Disney. You will find haikus about Disney every Monday on the Disney Dispatch written by JB Conway, author of the well-regarded book, Mouse of Zen, which of course is full of Disney haikus. What better way to step into your Disney week!
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Haiku: Magic Kingdom March #2
Disney poet JB Conway breathes in some Walt
The haiku theme for this month is Magic Kingdom March. Each week, JB Conway will evoke the Magic Kingdom in haiku. Maybe it's a ride. Maybe a building. Maybe it's a scent or a sound. Whatever it is, JB's haiku will conjure it in your mind and make it real again.
This haiku is one of JB's most personal poems.
In it, he recognizes the potency of Walt Disney's muse, floating invisibly through the air at the theme parks, ready to infuse the souls and the hearts of those who breathe it in.
It's a powerful invocation, and I'm sure most of us feel as JB does when the rope drops and a new Disney day dawns.
By the way, if you haven't bought JB's book, Mouse of Zen, and yet you come here each week to read his haikus, why do you torture yourself? Are you a masochist? (Or maybe a mouseochist?) Don't you know you can get all the haikus at once? In the book!
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