...Where You
Can Buy Anthing
In September the
haiku thread poets submitted poems exploring the experience of
visiting “a bazaar”—commonly regarded as a merchandising area, a
marketplace, or a street of shops where diverse goods and
services are exchanged. Often, bargaining is a practice that
makes a “bazaar” a unique place for conducting the sale and
purchase of goods.
Sometimes the goods of a church bazaar are quite intangible:
Grandmother's
fingers
sing her praises—
church bazaar
# 14. Kristin
Reynolds, US
A local church
bazaar allows the participants to display their special
talents—such as baking or quilting:
trying to bake
my grandma's cookies
church bazaar
# 29. Jacek Margolak, PL
Often, items can be
acquired by purchasing an inexpensive raffle ticket:
raffle tickets
on a hand crafted quilt—
one dollar
# 02. Tracy McPherson, US
Selling personal
items at a church bazaar can have a healing effect:
finally letting
go
of her husband's clothes
church bazaar
# 03. Kristin Reynolds, US
The sale of goods
and wares at a bazaar creates excitement:
rows of stalls
overflowing with goods...
lively bazaar
# 26. Keith A.
Simmonds, TT
During a bazaar
unexpected human behavior emerges:
church bazaar
behind the bedding
grandpa steals a kiss
# 20. Kristin Reynolds, US
he asks for the
price
she adjusts her saree
roadside bazaar
# 25. A. Thiagarajan, IN
A “bazzar”
encourages a festive atmosphere:
strains of music
crowds of busy shoppers...
Sunday bazaar
# 22. Keith A. Simmonds, TT
However, sometimes
the natural elements have a dampening effect:
our annual bazaar
in September
the rains
# 40. Gillena Cox, TT
Even the dogs get
involved:
a mongrel running
among a maze of stalls...
noisy bazaar
# 41. Keith A. Simmonds, TT
All kinds of wares
are available at a bazaar:
Gold and silver
among so many trinkets—
oriental bazaar
# 38. Vasile Moldovan, RO
At the end of the
day there are only memories:
after closing—
a single empty trolley
at the bazaar
# 06. A. Thiagarajan, IN
