the beatles got it right with their description of summer afternoons
Written for the Tricycle August 2023 Haiku Challenge using the Summer season word, summer afternoon.
... 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 beatles got it right with their description of summer afternoons
Written for the Tricycle August 2023 Haiku Challenge using the Summer season word, summer afternoon.
summer afternoon
giant skyscraping buffets
left for all the bugs
Written for the Tricycle August 2023 Haiku Challenge using the Summer season word, summer afternoon.
inevitable
White Lotus Hotel haiku:
no enlightenment.
Written for the Tricycle July 2023 Haiku Challenge using the Summer season word, lotus, but was not entered.
lotus broken free
untethered, unsupported
wonderful chaos
Written for the Tricycle July 2023 Haiku Challenge using the Summer season word, lotus.
lotus broken free
untethered, unsupported
wonderful chaos
Written for the Tricycle July 2023 Haiku Challenge using the Summer season word, lotus.
laid out like lotus
leaves covering a pond all
my faults stretched out bare
Written for the Tricycle July 2023 Haiku Challenge using the Summer season word, lotus.