haiku
leaf falls
thoughts are stirred
poetry
spellbound
senses inspired
haiku
message
delivered in words
so brief
haiku
how do you do
what you do?
This haiku sequence (actually senryū) is my response to
Day Twelve at napowrimo.net, where Maureen challenges us to
“write a poem that addresses itself or some aspect of its self.”
While some will insist that haiku must follow a 5-7-5 syllable count,
it also can be 3-5-3 or short-long-short.
chickadee
feeds in waning light
longest night
Winter Solstice ~ Wed, 21 Dec 2022, 3:47 pm CT
as falling leaves dance
among the orange flowers
feel the gentle breeze
This haiku is my response to
Poetics: The Landscape Sleeps, Ekphrastic Prompt,
From Merril at dVerse ~ Poets Pub.
Image source: Wikimedia Commons
Katsukawa Shunshō: Child Dancing
with Chrysanthemum Branch
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
freshly watered car
relieved of recent road salt
awaits next snowfall
This haiku is my response to Colleen’s #TankaTuesday Weekly
Poetry Challenge No. 300, #ShareYourDay.
gray scarf on tree branch
nothing more to consider
forlorn memories
This senryū is my response to Colleen’s Weekly #TankaTuesday Poetry Challenge No. 199, #ThemePrompt, with “The Gray Scarf” as a prompt
and a suggestion to write a story poem.
Avian Buffet
fresh bounty
for tufted titmouse
squirrels watch
chickadee
pecks sunflower seed
on white branch
cardinal
in a flash of red
on the wing
hungry birds
where no snow gathers
in snowfall
This haiku sequence using a 3-5-3 form is my response to Quadrille #164: Winging It, the prompt from De Jackson (whimsigizmo) at dVerse ~ Poets Pub, which is to use a form of the word wing in a 44-word poem (excluding title), with no required meter or rhyme.
empty branches
dusted with first snow
wait to revive
This senryū is my response to
RonovanWrites Weekly Haiku Prompt Challenge #436,
with these prompt words: empty and revive.
Image source: pngegg.com
maple leaf
catcher of sunlight
thoughts of home
This senryū is my response to
RonovanWrites Weekly Haiku Prompt Challenge #435,
with these prompt words:
catcher and thought.
orange leaves
fall on bluff top trail
river view
maple leaves of brilliant orange and yellow
reflect the afternoon sun
in a final farewell
Haiku, a Japanese form, have three lines with a syllable count of 3/5/3, 5/7/5, or short/long/short. A kigo, or seasonal reference, is integral, and there is often a kireji, or “cutting word” at the end of the first or second line to indicate two thoughts half-independent of each other.
There are distinct differences in kimo, an Israeli variant of haiku originally structured to meet the need for more syllables in Hebrew. Like haiku, there is no rhyme, but kimo have a syllable count of 10/7/6, and deal with a single moment in which there is no movement. While my poem is a moment in nature, kimo have no seasonal or natural requirement. Find discussions here and here.
This is my response to Colleen’s #TankaTuesday Weekly Poetry Challenge No. 296, #Tastetherainbow.
fish in a drought
swimming with nowhere to go
panic in a puddle
This haiku is my response to Twiglet #302: fish in a puddle.
Shared with OpenLinkNight at dVerse ~ Poets Pub.
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