More... Haiku! Gesundheit.

“Flower” she says
a yelllow weed
with dandelion leaves



cactus or succulent?
how sharply
do they bite the hand?



Mesquite so generous
of shade fickly hides
throngs of thorns



the path wanders
the same way
every afternoon

Haiku, What the Heck.

I've been playing around with haiku a little, hoping it would get me through a tough week and warm me up for writing poetry with my high school students.  These below are freshly baked... yet perhaps too soon from the oven for consumption?  I like them enough to put them out there, though. 

I have been reading up on haiku a little, and only recently discovered that the whole 17-syllable rule in English is a complete myth.  But I think they are actually more difficult to write when the rules are lifted. 



smooth curve of coffee cup
before the blunt edge of day



silly goose
loyally defends
even the blackbird.



The grass bows,
The field is a sea,
yet firmly rooted.



small ecology:
doll clothes, crayons, laundry, books
her habitat



pomegranate tree
so thin of stem and leaf
such rich juice



stone set in hillside.
weather wears incrementally;
avalanche shatters.

NaPoWriMo Day 8

Haiku for the Desert in Spring

Poppies and lupine
may sprout from winter showers
remember and watch

Prickly pear paddles
droop grey along the roadsides
survivors destroyed

freeze has flung all leaves
mesquite tease, bare limbs shadeless
wait to see what lives

NaPoWriMo Day 6

Haiku for the Library Atrium

filtered sun dapples
above fiction leaves, memoirs
hearts, minds wandering

View from My Office Area

More later?
Writing in forms seems to be an easy way to set a goal for the day...