in the dark wet night
the path becomes a wasteland
of snail shell pieces
... 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.
the strawberry thief
down at the pick-your-own fields
on wings did escape
Written for the June Tricycle Haiku Challenge using the Summer season word, strawberry.
there is nothing like
summers picking strawberries
to put you off them
Written for the June Tricycle Haiku Challenge using the Summer season word, strawberry.
the purest moment
a wave of strawberry juice
eyes closed to focus
Written for the June Tricycle Haiku Challenge using the Summer season word, strawberry.
strawberry flowers
morph slowly into a fruit
gone in a swallow
Written for the June Tricycle Haiku Challenge using the Summer season word, strawberry.
parma violet
“let me love you,” it asks us
the sweet that divides
Written for the May Tricycle Haiku Challenge using the Sping season word, violet, but was not entered.
day going nowhere
until the dots of purple
grey day violet
Written for the May Tricycle Haiku Challenge using the Sping season word, violet, but was not entered.
purple polka dots
burst out from a crumbling wall
greeting foragers
Written for the May Tricycle Haiku Challenge using the Sping season word, violet. Although I forgot to use the word and so it was not entered.
jewels of violet
brought from garden to lunchplate
outside to inside
Written for the May Tricycle Haiku Challenge using the Sping season word, violet.
spring snow comes then goes
a thought that never took flight
a quickly blown light
Written for the April Tricycle Haiku Challenge using the Sping season word, spring snow.
robin, white blossom:
it is always Christmas if
you look hard enough.
Written for the March Tricycle Haiku Challenge using the Sping season word, robin.
the last cottage day
robin dying in my hands
(knowledge kept inside)
Written for the March Tricycle Haiku Challenge using the Sping season word, robin.
the curious fox names the winter stars as do inquiring rabbits
Written for the February Tricycle Haiku Challenge using the Winter season word, Winter star.
the old year sleeping dreaming remembering all for eternity
Written for the January Tricycle Haiku Challenge using the Winter season word, the old year.
the old year’s dead trees remain in winter stasis little is yet new
Written for the January Tricycle Haiku Challenge using the Winter season word, the old year.
angelic old years wait for waves of nostalgia to travel back home
Written for the January Tricycle Haiku Challenge using the Winter season word, the old year.
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.