always the marker
of my return home whether
a hot or cold mountain
Written for the Tricycle January 2024 Haiku Challenge using the Winter season word, cold mountain, but was not entered.
... 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.
always the marker
of my return home whether
a hot or cold mountain
Written for the Tricycle January 2024 Haiku Challenge using the Winter season word, cold mountain, but was not entered.
cold mountain, cold heart.
like the distant star for Pip,
bright, yet cold, aloof.
Written for the Tricycle January 2024 Haiku Challenge using the Winter season word, cold mountain.
two kinds of relief
at the cold mountain’s summit:
stopping; and weeing.
Written for the Tricycle January 2024 Haiku Challenge using the Winter season word, cold mountain.
one day we will all
be roots of the cold mountain -
for now we enjoy
Written for the Tricycle January 2024 Haiku Challenge using the Winter season word, cold mountain.
cold mountain in the
grate, memory of the hot
one the night before
Written for the Tricycle January 2024 Haiku Challenge using the Winter season word, cold mountain.