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

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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.

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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

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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.

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Blister / #HaikuSeed / Feature With Commentary

Featuring haiku written by Anna Orridge for the #HaikuSeed blister

Crocus heads blister
the soil, erupting in
purple tenderness

– Anna Orridge / @orridge_anna

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Mosquito / #HaikuSeed / Feature With Commentary

Featuring haiku written by Ash Evan for the #HaikuSeed mosquito

perfume
lightly on my wrist
a mosquito

– Ash Evan / @mossinsnow

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