youth falls asleep and
lilac petals are scattered
across battlefields
Written for the May 2025 Tricycle Haiku Challenge using the Spring season word, lilac, 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.
youth falls asleep and
lilac petals are scattered
across battlefields
Written for the May 2025 Tricycle Haiku Challenge using the Spring season word, lilac, but was not entered.