we hope to lie down
on a bed strewn with lotus
to help us succeed
Written for the Tricycle July 2023 Haiku Challenge using the Summer season word, lotus.
... 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.
we hope to lie down
on a bed strewn with lotus
to help us succeed
Written for the Tricycle July 2023 Haiku Challenge using the Summer season word, lotus.
elegance shines out
like a lotus serenely
sat on the surface
(nobody sees the anchors
no one knows what’s underneath)
elegance shines out
like a lotus serenely
sat on the surface
Written for the Tricycle July 2023 Haiku Challenge using the Summer season word, lotus.
a single lotus
reminds me of you, of how
separate we are
Written for the Tricycle July 2023 Haiku Challenge using the Summer season word, lotus.
we feed the lotus
within, take such care of it
but when will it bloom?
Written for the Tricycle July 2023 Haiku Challenge using the Summer season word, lotus.
curled up and tiny
inside a lotus flower
protecting me still
Written for the Tricycle July 2023 Haiku Challenge using the Summer season word, lotus.
in the garden of
life at end of each path
a lotus flower
Written for the Tricycle July 2023 Haiku Challenge using the Summer season word, lotus.