Want a quick hit of haiku?
I am currently participating in a Junicho lead by Ashley Capes and was asked to submit three haiku for a summer verse. Here are the poems I submitted:
still dawn
every cloud is
a dead lamb
kissing
behind a stand of pines
the sun slips
lightning
sky to sea
and back again
To see which one was selected head over to Issa’s Snail. There are some mighty fine verses waiting for you!
Haiku! Difficult and delightful. I like the kissing…I can see them now…gorgeous sunset, just as he moves to slip the bra….the sun, the sun…!
Have a great time at Riverbend, and send us whatever poetry you might find, yours included.
Never thought of those clouds as dead lambs..bit sad.:-)
Love the kissing one and the lightning one! Not so keen on the dead lamb one, but I’m a big sook like that
Thanks Gabe… I too am a bit of a sook, but that image came to me after the floods and haunted me until I wrote it down.
In that context it works really well – if you had it with a collection of flood poems it works
especilly ‘still dawn’ – exactly what it was like (we were all stunned mullets I think).
O.K.
sorry for jumping in in a place not mine. but what is ‘sook’?
couldn’t find it.
I am not a big fan of haiku in general. but when they are good they can hit any roaming soul.
i really liked the lightning returning to the sky.
Glad this one hit the mark Dhyan!
nice to see you took my advice, ol china!
hehehehe[therington]
the third one is just beautiful too — i see it, and feel it!
now to go check out the site, huh?
big onya, as always.
Dhyan (haha) – a sook is a very sensitive person who is easily upset by things such as dead animals. Here is the dictionary.com definition:
–noun
1.
Australia and New Zealand . a timid, cowardly person, especially a young person; crybaby.
Gorgeous as always, Graham. And your ‘dead lamb’ is, indeed, haunting …
I’m probably more a sooky-la-la than a sook … Hmmm … Not sure if that’s Googleable?
Best,
Sandra