Featuring haiku written by Richard Barnes for the #HaikuSeed windowsill
hard rain
on the windowsill
tiny elbows
– Richard Barnes / @NaumaddicArts
Featuring haiku written by Richard Barnes for the #HaikuSeed windowsill
hard rain
on the windowsill
tiny elbows
– Richard Barnes / @NaumaddicArts
Featuring haiku written by @micro_zon for the #HaikuSeed cicada
Forests of Cicadas 森
There are no songs
until tomorrow.
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
#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”#HaikuSeed blister
poet crafting haiku
seeking perfection, her fingers
just short of blisters
— Sankara Jayanth Sudanagunta
Founding Editor
@coffeeandhaiku
#HaikuSeed water lily
neighbour’s terrace garden —
like their water lilies
plentiful my envy
— Sankara Jayanth Sudanagunta
Founding Editor
@coffeeandhaiku
#HaikuSeed footprint
visiting guests’ gifts
fresh fruits
muddy footprints
— Sankara Jayanth
Editor, Haiku Seed Journal
@coffeeandhaiku
#HaikuSeed moonlight
gloss of
moonlight
on wintry leaves
— Sankara Jayanth
Editor, Haiku Seed Journal
@coffeeandhaiku
Featuring haiku written by Anna Orridge for the #HaikuSeed blister
Crocus heads blister
the soil, erupting in
purple tenderness
– Anna Orridge / @orridge_anna
Featuring haiku written by Ash Evan for the #HaikuSeed mosquito
perfume
lightly on my wrist
a mosquito
– Ash Evan / @mossinsnow