helpless insane nights
returning and cowering
people distant, small
From words on page 80 of The Word for World is Forest by Ursula K. Le Guin (Gollancz, 1972/1976/2022).
... 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.
helpless insane nights
returning and cowering
people distant, small
From words on page 80 of The Word for World is Forest by Ursula K. Le Guin (Gollancz, 1972/1976/2022).
flesh sterile alone
labor foggily obeyed
lift-off drive bluish
From words on page 369 of Worlds of Exile and Illusion: Three Hainish Novels by Ursula K. Le Guin (Gollancz, 1966/2015) - from the third novel in the book, City of Illusions.
the tent stood talking
wind stretched a flaw carried word
memory outward
From words on page 145 of Worlds of Exile and Illusion: Three Hainish Novels by Ursula K. Le Guin (Gollancz, 1966/2015) - from the second novel in the book, Planet of Exile.
if, if, if, if i…
hundreds of kilometers…
parallel, apart.
From words on page 39 of Worlds of Exile and Illusion: Three Hainish Novels by Ursula K. Le Guin (Gollancz, 1966/2015) - from the first novel in the book, Rocannon's World.
fooled, fuddled, angry
turned to lies, air, fire, visions -
mirror-dots, dazzle
From words on page 372 of The Books of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin (Gollancz, 2018, Kindle Edition) - from the novel, The Farthest Shore.