i can't understand
having one dog let alone
polydoggery
... 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.