holding myself back
just need to get started right?
jump into the flow
... 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.
to write in Japan
to find fleeting moments there
as Basho once did
blossoms and Fuji and cats
trains and Ghibli and manga
covid aches and pains -
they force me to record that
there are no moments
little birds keeping
cool at the swimming pool's side
strange human-nature