take you everywhere
know roughly where i'm going
have time to stretch/stop
From words on page 19 of Lessons for Young Artists by David Gentleman (Penguin, 2025 [Kindle Edition]).
... and occasional Tanka... and Haibun. Started after a competition on the unbound.co.uk blog (see #1 and #2). Mostly actually senryu, I think. This year attempting to publish a Haiku every day - 365 Haiku a Day. For good or for ill, I always aim to stick rigidly to a 5-7-5 structure - forgive me if I have counted the syllables wrong, often they are how I have said, or thought, them in my head rather than their official number.
take you everywhere
know roughly where i'm going
have time to stretch/stop
From words on page 19 of Lessons for Young Artists by David Gentleman (Penguin, 2025 [Kindle Edition]).
gentle, still and cold the fields fast asleep in the winter solstice sun
Written for the December Tricycle Haiku Challenge using the Winter season word, Winter solstice, but was entered late.
only the evergreens will greet the winter solstice outdoors it's lonely
Written for the December Tricycle Haiku Challenge using the Winter season word, Winter solstice, but was entered late.