Today’s #HaikuSeed is ripe
humble cultivator, heed…
patience! harvest not
your haiku before it is ripe
Author: sankarajayanth
Neighbour / #HaikuSeed / Feature With Commentary
Featuring haiku written by Voimaoy for the #HaikuSeed neighbour
surviving the plague years–
waving to my neighbor
across the street
– Voimaoy / @voimaoy
Sparrow / #HaikuSeed / Editor’s Garden
Today’s #HaikuSeed is sparrow
Over the years sparrows inspired me to write a few haiku which I’m quite happy about and proud of. Sparrows are aplenty in our neighborhood and they are there in our backyard with their live commentary every morning as the sun shyly awakes. Even now, as I write this post, there are sparrows calling to each other, some darting this way and that between our house and the next. Such lively little creatures.
clothesline
wobbles
— a sparrow loses balance
Windowsill / #HaikuSeed / Feature With Commentary
Featuring haiku written by Richard Barnes for the #HaikuSeed windowsill
hard rain
on the windowsill
tiny elbows
– Richard Barnes / @NaumaddicArts
Cicada / #HaikuSeed / Feature With Commentary
Featuring haiku written by @micro_zon for the #HaikuSeed cicada
Forests of Cicadas 森
There are no songs
until tomorrow.
Low Tide / #HaikuSeed / Feature With Commentary
Featuring two haiku for the #HaikuSeed low tide, in no particular order.
low tide — the egret’s legs shorter yesterday
when the great whale
is revealed cell by cell…
low tide
– Alan Summers / @haikutec
Neighbour / #HaikuSeed / Editor’s Garden
#HaikuSeed neighbour
neighbour’s terrace garden —
like their water lilies
plentiful my envy
I wrote this haiku for the #HaikuSeed water lily from a few days ago which bloomed from a thought I would have still had for today’s prompt if I hadn’t already written it.
Over the years I’ve read a few haiku about neighbours and I remember being amused, even sniggering, when reading them. We get a sort of exclusive sneak peek as the writers, through their haiku, admit a thought or opinion about their neighbours they wouldn’t have otherwise to their friends and acquaintances, much less to their neighbours, hadn’t they been motivated to create art. There is often silliness, even pettiness to our thoughts and opinions about our neighbours, I’ve realized. It may not be something that determines our relationship with them but still, in some corner of our minds and hearts, there is coveting, judgment, anger, compassion and many such opinions and feelings towards our neighbours that we would likely never express.
Continue reading “Neighbour / #HaikuSeed / Editor’s Garden”Blister / Editor’s Garden
#HaikuSeed blister
poet crafting haiku
seeking perfection, her fingers
just short of blisters
— Sankara Jayanth Sudanagunta
Founding Editor
@coffeeandhaiku
Water Lily / Editor’s Garden
#HaikuSeed water lily
neighbour’s terrace garden —
like their water lilies
plentiful my envy
— Sankara Jayanth Sudanagunta
Founding Editor
@coffeeandhaiku
Footprint / Editor’s Garden
#HaikuSeed footprint
visiting guests’ gifts
fresh fruits
muddy footprints
— Sankara Jayanth
Editor, Haiku Seed Journal
@coffeeandhaiku