We are a bit omnivorous here, occasionally straying into philosophy and even literature. I have put up some haiku before, but not for quite a while. I write several every week, so here are a selection of the ones that are the least bad:
Here comes the New Year
How very odd the Old Year:
Plague, politics and loss.
* * *
Sudden heat of Spring
In such a hurry to melt
All trace of winter.
* * *
Green glint: hummingbird
Hovering so precisely
Misses not a bloom!
* * *
Quiet rain at night
Falling out of its season
Traces of memory.
* * *
Ancient wisdom or
"Latest research." I think I
Know where the truth lies.
* * *
Heavy rains today
Plants are drinking eagerly
World takes a shower.
* * *
Sad to realize
How poor in relationships
I have always been.
* * *
Ghosts of past mistakes
Flow through my dreams, keeping me
Awake, feeding doubt.
* * *
But I don't normally type my haiku into a computer. Instead, I write them with a fountain pen, like this:
I've leaned more into haiku using acid observational humor such as
ReplyDeletethe men who most want
to reproduce seem to be
the ones who shouldn't
But those kind of men are usually that way through every season!
If you read the traditional haiku, you notice that a lot of them are chains of witty and humorous poems.
ReplyDeleteonly a little, but I've read enough of them (and about them) to know the wit and humor show up, and I think for English language haiku emphasizing that element is easier than the seasonal allusions. Musical allusions come more easily
ReplyDeleteTrain is what we got
if The Counting Crows did a
Spin Doctors Cover
For the record I hate all three bands very much.
I don't think I would recognize any of that music if I heard it!
ReplyDeleteyou're better off for it. ;)
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