Category Archives: haiku

May Day Haiku–just for fun

Spring will blush bright red & cover our nakedness with apple blossoms I’ll bring the blanket & taste your kisses gladly beneath the  fresh sky without shame the laughing sunlight as witness ***The idea for this haiku chain was stolen from a … Continue reading

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haiku 04/30/2012–Siamese #2

thin question mark tail constant movement behind him– what is he asking ?

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4/30: Zest

skinning thinly, joy can be peeled off bitter tears– zest from acid fruit

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4/29–poet’s choice haiku: Siamese kitten

more monkey than cat tucks himself under my chin velvet scrap, purring

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Zoe’s haiku

Remember the other day, when I wrote about Zoe and I trying out some haiku together?  She wants to share some with you 🙂 *** its state math test time our pencils tap the answer fingers drumming desks *** bright blue … Continue reading

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Clarity (Haiku Heights Prompt 4/28)

waking, I comb out snarled colors/tangled dreaming groomed to clarity *** pure clarity of one drop of rainwater, poised on a blade of grass *** birdsong, like bright bells such rough, joyous clarity ringing in the day

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toothsome temptation

your lower lip pouts outward sweet lure for biting

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