The Haberdashery of Haiku
... and occasional Tanka. Started after a competition on the unbound.co.uk blog (see#1 and #2).
Wednesday 25 December 2013
#64
Christmas jingle bells
Crackers snapping, corks popping
Fun, fun, fun, fun, fun!
Thursday 19 December 2013
#63
Waiting for the bus
Many wrong numbers come by
'Til I hit jackpot
Tuesday 17 December 2013
#62
Cold and frosty start
Warming up in the middle
Losing hope for snow
Friday 13 December 2013
#61
Science history,
Science fiction, science fact,
Science everything
Tuesday 10 December 2013
#60
A thousand coats reeking
Of failure and success
Just another quiz
Friday 6 December 2013
#59
At tunnel's start fin
e
At end r
aining fast and
h
ard
Jog to journey's end
Tuesday 3 December 2013
#58
An autumn vista
Crisp brown fallen leaves covers
The ground across square
Friday 29 November 2013
#57
I don't need but want
To write haikus aplenty
It's just so much fun
Tuesday 26 November 2013
#56
I travelled daily
Through time but never through space
It was in my mind
Friday 22 November 2013
#55
I saw myself as
If made from lights - an angel?
A bad conclusion
Tuesday 19 November 2013
#54
The cold winter sun
Heat not rays seemingly lost
In the atmosphere
Thursday 14 November 2013
#53
Lost in a thick fog
No way to see what's ahead
Knife in the guts twists
Tuesday 12 November 2013
#52
Depressing drizzle
Relentless rain soaking me
My stomach feels wet
Tuesday 5 November 2013
#51
The storm swept on through
Like a raging bull possessed
Thank God it missed us
Thursday 31 October 2013
#50
Ghosts, ghoulies most foul
Will come out tonight to play
Make sure you’ve a towel
For they like to get
Their victims wet and to say
“You having fun, yet?”
Tuesday 29 October 2013
#49
The storm came and took
So much of what we had had
Thank God it left us
Wednesday 23 October 2013
#48
Glasses left in pub
Social media ensures
Return - thanks helpers!
Tuesday 22 October 2013
#47
In Information
Retrieval, we search and find
What a user wants
Thursday 17 October 2013
#s 46 and 46.1
Rising in the east,
The sun sets then in the west.
I can only set
It sets in the west
And then rises in the east
I am loathe to rise
Tuesday 15 October 2013
#45
The grey slate mountains
Littered with countless tiles
Like lost dragon scales
Thursday 10 October 2013
#44
Haikus are back, ist gut?
They never were very good
Just fun, nothing more
Tuesday 8 October 2013
#43
Wow. My haikus died
My brain did stop going there
Maybe now it will
Saturday 17 August 2013
#42
From the viaduct
I see the prettiest scenes
While heading to smoke.
Friday 16 August 2013
#41
Is this the start of
Everything? The watermark
Moment or nothing?
Friday 9 August 2013
#40
The freedom to be
A fool is not a freedom
To observe, my son
Unless it is in
Jest, unless it hurts no one
Keep from playing fool
Thursday 8 August 2013
#39
Dewdrops scattered on
Grass like melted diamonds: both
More rare and more known
Thursday 1 August 2013
#38
Lone daisy alone
Wishing it could form a chain
Folds upon itself
Tuesday 30 July 2013
#37
Haiku writing fun
This one is almost done but
Is it all correct?
Thursday 25 July 2013
#36
All bums in the air
Waving about with no care
Also without flair
Tuesday 23 July 2013
#35
Train clacking onward
Searching for the next station
Should be certain though
Thursday 18 July 2013
#34
Baking in the sun
Beating heat on everyone
Better than snow, though
Tuesday 16 July 2013
#33
"Not to be taken
Lightly," was a phrase he'
d
use
A feather slew him
Thursday 11 July 2013
#32
Mountain tall and cold
Frosty, lonely, eerie place
Why must I live there?
Tuesday 9 July 2013
#31
Can’t understand it
Don’t want to understand it
Need to understand
Thursday 4 July 2013
#30
Snowdrops keep falling
In my hair - why's the shredder
Pointed at my head?
Tuesday 2 July 2013
#29
Rows of empty chairs
Waiting to be filled with life
To help birth great work
Thursday 27 June 2013
#28
O
wls in a snowy
T
ree talking about the snow
W
hen it starts to rain
Tuesday 25 June 2013
#27
Under the cities
Lives what remains of before
Waiting for that day
Thursday 20 June 2013
#26
The majesty of
Nature, the crown of Mother
Crushed by human boots
Tuesday 18 June 2013
#25
Die and become part
Of the glory of nature
But first you must die
Thursday 13 June 2013
#24
I must drink coffee
Hourly to stay awake
I’m never alert
Tuesday 11 June 2013
#23
River onwards wends
From break of day to its end
River wants a rest
Thursday 6 June 2013
#22
Clouds of daffodils
Dotted across lonesome hills
Ripping off on Will
Tuesday 4 June 2013
#21
The sun through the pane
Making the room beautiful
While I pine for air
Thursday 30 May 2013
#20
Deep inside the tree
Its spirit awaits release
To play but briefly
An annual trip
A stretching of cramped up legs
Embraces with friends
Before returning
Home to the heart of its tree
Until the next year
Wednesday 29 May 2013
#19
A new age or dawn
Started with a stifled yawn
And grew to dropped jaws
Thursday 23 May 2013
#18
Rocket from the moon
Full of astronauts and yet
Something crept aboard
Tuesday 21 May 2013
#17
Counting the money
Twice to lose all the mistakes
(Later shown mistakes)
Thursday 16 May 2013
#16
Acorns full of hope
Seeking to build a nation
An oakopolis
Tuesday 14 May 2013
#15
A landscape of snow
Perfect, untouched, pure white snow
A painting, of course
Friday 10 May 2013
#14
A strange change in tone
May only be perceived but
Must be rooted out
Tuesday 7 May 2013
#13
Gathering stormclouds
Bring prosperity through gold
At the rainbow’s end
Thursday 2 May 2013
#12
A girl gone done bad
Mud all over the carpet
Cleans it up herself
Tuesday 30 April 2013
#11
A boy in trouble
Mud all over the carpet
Tries to blame the dog
Thursday 25 April 2013
#10
Snow lying deeply
For miles it sits serenely
Stranding me homely
Tuesday 23 April 2013
#9
"A haiku", you say?
"In that special form," you say?
"I cannot," I say.
Wednesday 17 April 2013
#8
Notebook and pencil
Used to create stories short
Then to pastures new
Tuesday 16 April 2013
#7
Lady in Barber’s
“Prob’ly a short back and sides”
Will she look like me?
Thursday 11 April 2013
#6
One lone daffodil
Sitting on a shady hill
Rooted in all life
Tuesday 9 April 2013
#5
A pig in a cage
Dreaming of a muddy field
Wishing he'd not killed
Thursday 4 April 2013
#4
Sweet deer in the wood
Looking for/becoming food
Pray for gun it should
Tuesday 2 April 2013
#3
Eyes of suspicion
Search deep inside him for it
Find all and nothing
Thursday 28 March 2013
#2
I wrote a haiku
No win in competition
Did get
featured
though
Tuesday 26 March 2013
#1
Our
sacrosanct
place
Intricate with memories
Nothing without us
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